Nav Menu Images
Display image as a menu item content.
4.2(37 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Nav Menu Images is a WordPress menu plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 37 reviews. It has been downloaded 147K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 51% this week. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.
4.2/537 reviews
6.0K+active installs
147K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
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This plugin enables you to upload images for nav menu items on a menu edit screen. By default, those images will be displayed instead of text for respective menu items. Note that after upload, you should set an image as ‘featured’ to be able to display it.
You can also set images that will be displayed only when you hover menu item, or when menu item is of currently displayed page. Read detailed instructions about using plugin.
Developers can use many available filters to make their own way of displaying images, or even create a child class on top of base one. See source code for more ideas.
Although this plugin displays uploaded images out of the box, it will probably not give best possible look, so it’s recommended to create cus…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works well.
by Chris Dennis·8 years ago
No problems so far.
Ruin my menu
by tahag·9 years ago
it break my menu style
False sense of security?
by jemcbade·9 years ago
This is “half” the equation for the purpsoe.
If you hide a menu item with this plugin, this does not mean that search engines can’t see it. Be SURE and also password protect any pages you want to protect.
As stated, you will need additional an additional plugin to control access to conbtent.
This plugin ONLY hides the menu item, but again, not from search engines.
Beware!
- This topic was modified 9 years ago by jemcbade.
Didn’t work
by jdaviescoates·9 years ago
I tried this on a multisite install but it didn’t work – the option to upload an image just didn’t appear at all
Does what it promise
by mathiasholmbo·9 years ago
Does what it’s supposed to.
Would love the possibility to choose wether or not to replace all link content – would be nice if the link text would still be shown + adding a custom class to image.
- This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by mathiasholmbo.
Download Trends
Today: 3Yesterday: 8This week: 29Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 4.6.30 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.4
92.3%
v3.2
5.5%
Other
2.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.4
- Released on 11th September 2016
- Removed ‘srcset’ and ‘sizes’ attributes.
- Fixed PHP notice that could happen in some cases.
Contributors
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