Adds missing menu items into your Appearance menu in the WordPress admin area to make maneuvering to useful WordPress editor features easy.
As of April 2026, Missing Menu Items is a WordPress gutenberg plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Classic Editor.
Frustrated navigating around the latest WordPress admin whild building your site? Why does it take so many clicks to get to Editor Templates?
The Missing Menu Items for WordPress plugin adds useful Editor related links to the admin navigation.
Missing Menu Items adds the following under the Appearance menu:
* Reusable Blocks
* Navigation Menus
* Templates
* Template Parts
* More Coming Soon…
You can get support from the community here, or in our growing Facebook Group and find information in our documentation.
Direct support is offered to BlockStyles members.
Stay up-to-date on Missing Menu Items updates and Gutenberg development, using the links below. The plugin is also being built transparently on GitHub, so give it a star and follow along! 😉
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| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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