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Menu Item Types

by Maxime Pertici · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 3 other plugins · 310+ installs across the portfolio →

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Menu Item Types makes it easy to add and create custom menu item types to your navigation menus.

⚠ Few reviews
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84 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

84 health vs 54 average across 3,793 Admin & Utilities plugins

100+

Active installs

≈160 estimated

9.7K

Total downloads

since 2021

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

-18%

260

Downloads · 30d

category median +24%

Directory ranking optimization

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How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

85 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-18% vs prior 30d
27Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

260

now · peak 398

26030d downloads · Sep 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Menu Item Types · #15555 you Custom Post Type Par · #7219 Custom Profile Menu · #9570 Admin Menu Editor · #159

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

2.6Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

2

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v1.8

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.8 · 2mo ago1.7 · 11mo ago1.6 · 1.6y ago1.5 · 2.1y ago1.4 · 2.2y ago1.3 · 2.9y ago1.2 · 3.8y ago1.1 · 4.7y ago1.0 · 4.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 66% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 66%
v1.7 34%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈160

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 200+ in roughly 490 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,385 observations

100Installs · Sep 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.8
Last updated
2mo ago
Added
2021-10-07 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
5.8
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
8.0
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ umbertone
    7mo ago

    Many thanks! Hope WP Core will have some API to do it natively some day 🙂

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  2. ★★★★★ eickit
    1.6y ago

    Very helpful plugin if you want to add CPTs to the menu. Why is something like this not in the WordPress standard?

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

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Translated into 2 languages, 1 at 90% or more

French (France) 100%
Swedish 63%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-05-22 90+ → 100+ up after 8 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-14 100+ → 90+ down after 4 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-10 90+ → 100+ up after 5 days in tier
  4. 2026-05-05 100+ → 90+ down after 3 days in tier
  5. 2026-05-02 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-05-01 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in tier
  7. 2026-04-29 90+ → 100+ up after 11 days in tier
  8. 2026-04-18 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier

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