Dropdown Menus
Display your WordPress menus as a dropdown select box. Great for mobile designs.
4.4(5 reviews)
·300 active installs·Updated 13 years agoAs of April 2026, Dropdown Menus is a WordPress ui plugin with 300 active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 31K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Radio Buttons for Taxonomies.
4.4/55 reviews
300active installs
31K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Sometimes for mobile design or more generally small-screen design it can be beneficial to save space by using a dropdown for your navigation.
This plugin provides a way to display your custom menus as dropdowns either using a widget or a function call and can be used as an include in any theme.
Usage
If you are using the plugin with a theme you can use the function dropdown_menu() in place of calls to wp_nav_menu().
The dropdown_menu() function takes the same arguments as wp_nav_menu() with the addition of three extras:
<?php
dropdown_menu( array(
// You can alter the blanking text eg. "- Menu Name -" using the following
'dropdown_title' => '-- Main Menu --',
// indent_string is a string that gets output before the title of a
// sub-menu item. It is repeated twice…Ratings & Reviews
4.45 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0
- Added check for dropdown_menu being declared already to avoid issues if plugin is used and theme has it embedded
Contributors
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