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Multisite Shared Menu

by Ben Greeley · Uncategorized

Use navigation menus from another multisite blog on the same network to achieve a universal common navigation area.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 77/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

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

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4072 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+18% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

103

now · peak 162

10330d downloads · Aug 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

Multisite Shared Men · #20043 you Import Export Menu · #4502 Responsive Navigatio · #5317 Auto Subpage Menu · #7852

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.4Stars · Aug 26

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.

1.7Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “60+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
60–70 ≈67

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

At the current install trend, crossing 70+ in roughly 745 days.

Install history · since 2015-08-16 · 1,386 observations

60Installs · Aug 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.

Details

Version
1.2
Last updated
11.2y ago
Added
2015-01-08 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.9
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. digitalkristen
    1.4y ago

    I have a multisite setup with a main and 5 subsites. I set up the primary nav on the main and used this plugin to copy it to all of the subsites. All but one. The subsite running the Neve theme just won’t copy the menu over. Other than that, it is awesome and has saved me a ton of time already! I just need to set up about10 more subsites and copy the menu to all of those, as well!

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  2. nickgarner
    6.1y ago

    It works on the latest WordPress multisite as of this review date

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  3. jpollock
    9.2y ago

    Works perfectly. Just as described. Saved us a ton of time! Thank you!

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  4. Bradford
    10.0y ago

    Breaks admin bar on any site this plugin is active on. The admin bar will act like you are on the site that this plugin is getting the shared menus from. I’ll change my rating if this bug is fixed.

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  5. raizaduran
    10.2y ago

    Thank you for the amazing plugin

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  6. ninanmnm
    10.3y ago

    I have a multisite installation with one master site and one child. Needed the child to look and feel exactly like the parent site, and I didn’t want to worry about updating the menu twice. This worked for me. I had to create an empty menu on the child site and assign it to the appropriate location, and then it worked.

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  7. Abland
    11.4y ago

    Very nice job. I’ve coded global menus in the past but hit a bit of a roadblock on a current framework. I spent an hour or so trying to get the responsive menu to sync up alongside the global and function the same way. I was getting close but it wasn’t quite the same as the native blog menu – then I decided to search and found your plugin. Very nice job – clean, light, and does what it says. Thank you.

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  8. eb0la
    11.4y ago

    Works as advertised to achieve a universal menu across blogs in my multisite environment.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-31 50+ → 60+ up after 88 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-04 60+ → 50+ down after 10 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-25 50+ → 60+ up after 184 days in tier
  4. 2025-11-22 60+ → 50+ down after 271 days in tier
  5. 2025-02-24 70+ → 60+ down after 40 days in tier
  6. 2025-01-15 60+ → 70+ up after 17 days in tier
  7. 2024-12-29 70+ → 60+ down after 4 days in tier
  8. 2024-12-25 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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