Add WordPress Dropdown Menu Widget easily! Upgrade your sidebar menus to responsive dropdown widget now!
As of April 2026, Easy Sidebar Menu Widget is a WordPress nav menu plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 141 reviews. It has been downloaded 29K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 16% this week. Top alternative: Menu Image, Icons made easy.
Easily add dropdown menu on your sidebar via widget. Just drag and drop to your sidebar and select the menu you want to display and it will rendered perfectly. You can also add descriptions and other attributes to your menu link and it will be displayed on the frontend.
After plugin activation go to Appearance > Widgets the drag Easy Sidebar Menu to your primary sidebar then add title and select your created menu. Easy!
Make you WordPress sidebar menu better by adding icons! Easy Sidebar Menu Widget Plugin is tested and working perfectly with Menu Icons Plugin. Icons + Description + Dropdown equals perfect sidebar menu!
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No longer works with WordPress as of 6.4.2
As a free widget offers decent and simple job
It’s okay I found what I was looking for
Is a simple but effectly plugin that solved my problem. Sidebars are not common in current time, but a costumer request it. A long sidebar looks awful, but making it collapsible looks better and improves UX.
Maybe a little costumization would help.
Works great.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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