Better Menu Widget makes it easy to customize your menu widgets by adding css styles and a heading link.
As of April 2026, Better Menu Widget is a WordPress menus plugin with 600 active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 25K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility.
This plugin is no longer under active development. With all the improvements to WordPress the need for this plugin has long passed. It will still work but no improvements will be made.
A Custom Menu widget that adds a custom url to the widget title and adds a custom css class. The default custom menu CSS class is sub-menu and it is applied to the <ul> tag. You will need to style the widget using your theme’s stylesheet.
Based on the core WordPress Custom Menu widget.
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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