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Menu Item Types

Menu Item Types makes it easy to add and create custom menu item types to your navigation menus.

By Maxime Pertici·Menu·Free
5(2 reviews)
·80 active installs·Updated 6 months ago
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As of April 2026, Menu Item Types is a WordPress menu plugin with 80 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 8.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2021. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.

5/52 reviews
80active installs
8.7K+total downloads
5 yearssince 2021

Overview

Menu Item Types makes it easy to add links to your archive pages, titles, items without URL, paragraphs or images to your navigation menus.
You can also easily override the templates and/or create your own custom elements.

Create your own item type

You need to declare your new type in, functions.php, a plugin, child theme, or your custom theme like this :

function register_my_custom_type(){

    $args = array(
        'slug'        => "my-custom-type",
        'label'       => __( 'My Custom Type', 'my-custom-type' ),
        'render'      => 'path/to/render/my-custom-render.php',
    );

    mitypes_register_type( $args );
}
add_action( 'mitypes_init', 'register_my_custom_type' );

You can do more than that on $args.

$args = array(
    'slug'   => "my-custom-type",
    'labe…
Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

52 reviews
5 ★
2
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP8.0+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.7

  • Fix : mitypes_init hook timing
  • Fix : buildin paragraph slug (maybe if you excluded it with the error, it will be back in your admin, sorry)
  • Fix : image size in Image type
  • Update readme.txt with more code information (thanks to Shoulders for his help)
  • PHP 8.x required
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Maxime PerticiMaxime Pertici
Plugin Info
Version
1.7
Last Updated
Oct 2, 2025
WP Requires
5.8+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
8.0+
Active Installs
80
Downloads
8.7K+
Added
Oct 7, 2021
Business
Free

Tags

menucustomnav item

Developer

M
Maxime Pertici
4 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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