Wordpress Custom Menu Plugin

This is a very simple plugin that I wrote to manage navigation menus from the admin panel in WordPress instead of having to code the template each time a menu or a menu item was added, removed or changed.

Download Wordpress Custom Menu Plugin

Menu items are added in the Tools->Custom Menu section of WordPress Admin as displayed below:

Club Wordpress Custom Menu Admin

Menu items can be added, edited and deleted here. Use the Visible property to set whether an item is displayed.

To display the Custom Menu in a WordPress theme, add the following code to your template file where you want the menu to be displayed:

<?php custommenu_output(); ?>

For the menu items displayed in the image above, the following HTML will be output in the theme:

<ul>
    <li><a href=’/’ title=’Home’>Home</a></li>
    <li><a href=’/articles/’ title=’Articles’>Articles</a></li>
    <li><a href=’http://wordpress.org/’ title=’Wordpress’>Wordpress</a></li>
    <li><a href=’/sitemap/’ title=’Sitemap’>Sitemap</a></li>
    <li><a href=’/contact/’ title=’Contact’>Contact</a></li>
    <li><a href=’/about/’ title=’About’>About</a></li>
</ul>

The menu is output as an unordered HTML list.

Download Wordpress Custom Menu Plugin

All you need to do then is make sure the HTML is styled properly to display the menu correctly. I may do a tutorial on how to do this if there is enough interest, so check out my RSS Feed to keep updated :)

Please let me know what you think of the plugin and what improvements could be made to it.

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5 Responses to “Wordpress Custom Menu Plugin”

  1. Quincy says:
    October 22, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    I would add the ability to reorder links

  2. admin says:
    October 22, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    @Quincy – Good idea. I’ll put that in the next release.

  3. Julian says:
    October 24, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    Hey… I just tried your plugin but seems it don’t work with a clean installation.

    line 238: $yahoo = new yahoo;

    What is that?

    tx.

  4. admin says:
    October 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    @Julian – Thanks for pointing that out… I uploaded the wrong version. I have uploaded the working version now.

  5. Dave Buck says:
    October 28, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    Brilliant i have been looking for something like this for ages

    thankyou

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