Menu presentation and mobile navigation
Navigation is the category’s strongest overlap, with 134 plugins also tagged for navigation.
- Max Mega Menu: its name points to mega-menu presentation; it has 300,000 active installs.
- WP Mobile Menu and WP Responsive Menu: their names highlight mobile and responsive menu presentation.
- Menu Image, Icons made easy: its name points to adding images or icons to menus.
Menus controlled by roles and conditions
Several prominent plugin names point to menu visibility controlled by user roles or context.
User Menus has 80,000 active installs and was updated 1 month ago. Nav Menu Roles has 70,000 installs and was updated this month; Conditional Menus has 60,000 installs and was updated 2 months ago. If Menu has 50,000 installs and was updated 23 months ago. Across these plugins, active installs range from 50,000 to 80,000, and updates range from this month to 23 months ago.
Admin menu editing and menu duplication
The admin overlap connects menu tools with editing and duplication, with 72 plugins also tagged admin.
Admin Menu Editor has 300,000 active installs and was updated 2 months ago. Duplicate Menu has 100,000 active installs and was updated 10 months ago.
Menus for stores and other specialized sites
Related tags show the category crossing into specific site contexts.
- Menu Cart for WooCommerce has 70,000 active installs; 20 plugins overlap with the WooCommerce tag.
- Restaurant sites are another area of overlap, shared by 39 menu-category plugins.
Menu plugin adoption and maintenance are uneven
The category is broad, but relatively few plugins reach high install counts, and recent update activity is limited.
Of 515 plugins, 4 have at least 100,000 active installs and 27 have at least 10,000. The leading group includes Max Mega Menu and Admin Menu Editor at 300,000 installs each, while Duplicate Menu and Menu Image, Icons made easy have 100,000 each.
Only 32% of category plugins were updated in the last year. Update timing varies even among those four high-install plugins: Max Mega Menu and Admin Menu Editor were updated 1 and 2 months ago, while Duplicate Menu was updated 10 months ago and Menu Image 15 months ago.