Menu extensions and visual navigation
Menu-related tags account for a substantial part of this category, particularly the broad menu tag.
There are 135 plugins tagged menu, alongside 22 tagged menus and 18 tagged mega-menu. Among the prominent examples, Max Mega Menu has 300,000 active installs, while Menu Image, Icons made easy has 100,000.
Breadcrumbs, table of contents and page links
Breadcrumbs, table-of-contents tools and page-link navigation form distinct adjacent areas.
- Breadcrumbs: 20 plugins share this tag; examples include Breadcrumb NavXT and Flexy Breadcrumb.
- Table of contents: 23 plugins have the table-of-contents tag and 20 have the toc tag. Examples include LuckyWP Table of Contents and Rich Table of Contents.
- Page links: Page scroll to id is another prominent entry in this navigation group.
Pagination and other page-navigation tools
The category also includes tools associated with pagination and other page-level navigation tasks.
- Pagination: WP-PageNavi and WP-Paginate are examples in this area.
- Other entries: Float menu, Simple Side Tab and Exclude Pages also appear among the category’s prominent plugins.
- Range of tasks: Taken together, these examples show that Navigation covers several distinct ways of moving through site content.
A broad category with a small high-install group and uneven upkeep
The category is broad, but only a small group of plugins reaches the highest active-install thresholds.
Of 363 plugins, 5 have at least 100,000 active installs and 17 have at least 10,000. Breadcrumb NavXT leads the listed examples with 800,000 installs, followed by WP-PageNavi at 400,000; Max Mega Menu has 300,000. At the other end of the listed range, several examples have 10,000 installs.
Update timing is uneven: 44% of category plugins were updated in the last year. Max Mega Menu was updated this month, while Menu Image, Icons made easy was last updated 15 months ago, LuckyWP Table of Contents and Rich Table of Contents 18 months ago, and Exclude Pages 108 months ago.