Title: Menubar
Author: Andrea Tarantini
Published: <strong>March 28, 2009</strong>
Last modified: December 14, 2025

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# Menubar

 By [Andrea Tarantini](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dontdream/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/menubar.5.9.4.zip)

[Live Preview](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/menubar/?preview=1)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/menubar/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/menubar/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/menubar/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/menubar/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menubar/)

## Description

With Menubar you can easily build and manage single and multi-level menus for your
WordPress site.

 * Use as menu items the homepage, the frontpage, a category or a category tree,
   a static page or a page tree, a tag archive or a tag list, a single post, a search
   box, or any URL, hard-coded or generated from a code snippet (see [1], [2], [
   3])
 * To display a menu, use the _menubar_ shortcode or the _Menubar_ widget, or insert
   a simple line of code in your child theme (see [1])
 * To style your menus, select one of the default Menubar templates, or your own
   customized template (see [1])

You can browse the documentation pages (below) or use the _Live Preview_ button (
top right).

 1. [Menubar](https://dontdream.it/menubar/)
 2. [Menu Builder](https://dontdream.it/menubar/menu-builder/)
 3. [The Menubar PHP type](https://dontdream.it/menubar/the-menubar-php-type/)

## Installation

Standard installation, see [Installing Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/article/managing-plugins/#installing-plugins-1).

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[helpful plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helpful-plugin-133/)󠁿

 [larygejyds21](https://profiles.wordpress.org/larygejyds21/) May 3, 2019

This is really helpful plugin! With the nice functionality and and simple interface.
Thank you very much , you did a great job!

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### 󠀁[Best plugin if you are looking for a Mobile horizontal menu that list all menus](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-plugin-if-you-are-looking-for-a-mobile-horizontal-menu-that-list-all-menus/)󠁿

 [naomibuch](https://profiles.wordpress.org/naomibuch/) April 23, 2019

It solved my mobile horizontal issue, with listing all the Desktop menu items to
match the horizontal menu items on mobile device.

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### 󠀁[Menubar doesn’t work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menubar-doesnt-work/)󠁿

 [volopolo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/volopolo/) May 18, 2018

Menubar doesn’t work

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Really useful plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-useful-plugin-37/)󠁿

 [KiryGNC](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kirygnc/) January 31, 2017 1 reply

Very fast support responses! Good luck to all team developers 😉

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### 󠀁[Great product with SUPERB SUPPORT!!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-product-with-superb-support/)󠁿

 [apfrow](https://profiles.wordpress.org/apfrow/) September 3, 2016

I really like this simple to use menu plugin but had a problem removing the old 
default menu from my theme. 15 mins after asking for support Andrea logged into 
my site and removed the old menu and then told me what had been done and how to 
improve it. I am blown away by this great support as technically the problem was
with my theme and not this plugin! Thank you Andrea, I am very grateful

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### 󠀁[Easy to use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/easy-to-use-697/)󠁿

 [the_enn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/the_enn/) September 3, 2016

Very easy to customize and add/remove options to the menu at will.

 [ Read all 15 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menubar/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Menubar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Andrea Tarantini ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dontdream/)

“Menubar” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/menubar/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Menubar” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/menubar)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/menubar/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/menubar/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/menubar/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/menubar/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 5.9.4

 * Fixed a few notices related to _load\_plugin\_textdomain_

#### 5.9.3

 * Expanded the documentation section

#### 5.9.2

 * Fixed incompatibility with block themes

#### 5.9.1

 * Fixed old bug that prevented _Loco Translate_ from working properly

#### 5.9

 * Removed vulnerability, see description in [Wordfence](https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/menubar/menubar-582-cross-site-request-forgery-in-wpm-adminphp)

#### 5.8.2

 * Fixed an incompatibility with PHP 8.0.0 that prevented adding items to an empty
   menu

#### 5.8.1

 * Added suggestion to insert menus in a child theme, not in the parent theme

#### 5.8

 * Removed insecure code – thanks to _p7e4_ via wpscan.com

#### 5.7.2

 * Upgraded Superfish (by Joel Birch) to v1.7.10
 * No longer requires the _Enable jQuery Migrate Helper_ plugin

#### 5.7.1

 * Fixed two PHP 7.4 Notices

#### 5.7

 * Requires [Enable jQuery Migrate Helper](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-jquery-migrate-helper/)
   with WordPress 5.5

#### 5.6.5

 * Fixed a few PHP 7 Warnings

#### 5.6.4

 * Improved the Menubar widget
 * Fixed a few PHP Notices when deleting a menu

#### 5.6.3

 * Removed trailing spaces from menu names

#### 5.6.2

 * Updated for PHP 7

#### 5.6.1

 * Improved the usability of the _PHP_ menu item type

#### 5.6

 * Added shortcode to display a menu in a post or page, or in a page builder text
   block
 * Added the plugin icon – thanks to Sebastian Rubio

#### 5.5

 * Updated to use WP language packs

#### 5.4

 * Updated for WordPress 4.3

#### 5.3

 * Code cleanup to remove a number of PHP Notices

#### 5.2

 * Fixed two more PHP Warnings: Creating default object from empty value

#### 5.1

 * Fixed two PHP 5.4 Warnings: Creating default object from empty value

#### 5.0

 * All the default Menubar templates are now included in the plugin folder, so you
   don’t have to download them separately

#### 4.10

 * Fixed a compatibility bug with the qTranslate plugin

#### 4.9

 * Enhanced the PHP item type, so you can dynamically generate both label and link
   of a menu item
 * Fixed a bug that prevented highlighting in the External and PHP types when a 
   querystring was present

#### 4.8

 * Added the PHP item type, so you can build your menu items dynamically with PHP
   code

#### 4.7

 * Added the Exclude field to PageTree and CategoryTree types, so you can prevent
   one or more elements from being displayed
 * Added the Headings field to PageTree and CategoryTree types, so you can make 
   one or more elements non clickable

#### 4.6

 * Added the Tag and TagList types (only with new template versions)
 * Added the Depth field to PageTree and CategoryTree types, so you can choose how
   many tree levels to display

#### 4.5

 * Added support for icons in menu items (only with new templates)
 * Fixed a bug affecting single and double quote characters that were incorrectly
   escaped

#### 4.4

 * Improved performance moving the Menubar data from a DB table to a serialized 
   option, so just a single DB call per page is needed

#### 4.3

 * Fixed a bug affecting the _Add Menu Item_ and _Edit Menu Item_ forms in IE6 and
   IE7

#### 4.2

 * Added support for the wp-config.php FORCE_SSL_ADMIN option
 * Added support for the new Superfish template

#### 4.1

 * Improvements to the new template structure – older templates are supported as
   well
 * Added the Custom type to insert custom HTML in your menu (only with new templates)
 * The name of a menu item is automatically generated when the _Name_ field is left
   blank (only with new templates)

#### 4.0

 * New template structure for better customization – old templates are supported
   as well
 * Added the SearchBox type to integrate a search box in your menubar (only with
   new templates)
 * Moved the _Menubar_ admin page under the _Appearance_ admin menu

#### 3.6

 * Improved the first installation procedure with more user-friendly messages

#### 3.5

 * Added the _Menubar_ widget to display a menu in a sidebar or widget area

#### 3.4

 * Improved compatibility with the qTranslate plugin

#### 3.3

 * Fixed a bug affecting menu names containing a space, and a bug in a special menu
   reordering case

#### 3.2

 * Added more options to easily rearrange the order of your menu items

#### 3.1

 * Menubar templates are now stored in the _menubar-templates_ folder, so future
   automatic upgrades won’t overwrite your template customizations

#### 3.0

 * First version hosted in the WordPress Plugin Directory

## Meta

 *  Version **5.9.4**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **1,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/menubar/) and [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/menubar/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/menubar)
 * Tags
 * [menu](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/menu/)[menubar](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/menubar/)
   [navigation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/navigation/)[suckerfish](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/suckerfish/)
   [superfish](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/superfish/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/menubar/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  13 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menubar/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menubar/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menubar/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menubar/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menubar/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Andrea Tarantini ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dontdream/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/menubar/)