Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field
Add-On plugin for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) that adds a 'Nav Menu' Field type.
5(33 reviews)
·9.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field is a WordPress acf plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 33 reviews. It has been downloaded 134K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 25% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®).
5/533 reviews
9.0K+active installs
134K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Add Navigation Menus to Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) with the Nav Menu Field plugin! This plugin adds the Nav Menu Field type to ACF (version 5 & 4), allowing you to select from the menus you create in the WordPress Admin backend to use on your website’s frontend.
Using ACF, you can set the Nav Menu Field to return the selected menu’s:
- ID for lightweight coding,
- Object for more involved programming, or
- HTML (generated from wp_nav_menu) for quickly displaying a menu.
I created this plugin because I needed to display a secondary menu that changed depending on what page you’re on. Most of those pages were children of the same page, but then I had to throw a couple of Custom Post Types in there too. Because of the Custom Post Types, I couldn’t just grab the top m…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Still works perfectly with ACF 6
by Gabor Lippert·3 years ago
All in the title 🙂
Quick addition: as others feedbacked here many years ago, this plugin is a must-have to all developers actively working with ACF – it’s a shame it’s not showing up in the WP plugins earch for the sole reason it hasn’t been updated for a long time.
Works with 4.9.8
by Nikola Dimitrijević·7 years ago
It works with 4.9.8, but could use few more options
- This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Nikola Dimitrijević.
Exactly what I needed
by Sheenmo·7 years ago
Worked perfectly. It took me 5 minutes to install, add menu and output it to a page.
Let’s don’t make any mistakes here…
by Yuval·7 years ago
Let’s don’t make any mistakes here – this addon is perfect and needs no changes, that’s why there is nothing to update here.
Used it in many sites. Thank you!
Oldie but Goodie
by Tracy Rotton·8 years ago
This plugin might be old, but it still works perfectly and does exactly what I needed. No PHP errors, warnings, or notices, either. Running with ACF PRO 5.6.7 and WordPress 4.9.1.
Download Trends
Today: 26Yesterday: 73This week: 200Period total: 14K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.4+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
99.7%
v1.1
0.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.0
- Added ACF v5 class.
- Updated code to follow coding standards
- Updated the ACF v4 class to use the updated code found in the ACF v5 Class
Contributors
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