Menu Item Types makes it easy to add and create custom menu item types to your navigation menus.
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.
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.
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…| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.0+ required |
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