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Navception

Embed WordPress Menus inside of other WordPress Menus!

By Faison·Menu·Free
5(9 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 11 years ago
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As of April 2026, Navception is a WordPress menu plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 9 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.

5/59 reviews
200active installs
10K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

About Navception

Navception: The act of embedding a pre-constructed WordPress Menu inside another WordPress Menu.

Navception adds a simple feature to WordPress Menus, but opens the door to powerful possibilities. New to your WordPress Nav Menu editor, is a box that lets you add menus into your menus! This allows you to create one menu to include as a submenu once in another menu, multiple times in another menu, or multiple times in multiple menus. What makes this so powerful is that if you decide that your submenu needs another link added to it, you only have to update it in one place! Navception, a simple concept with powerful results!

Let’s look at a couple of scenarios:

Without Navception

  • If you have a submenu you need repeated across your site: First you have to add all the lin…
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Ratings & Reviews

59 reviews
5 ★
9
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.0.38
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.0.0

  • Rewrote the main Navception code to run on the ‘wp_get_nav_menu_items’ filter, which is easier to code and allows any custom Nav Menu Walker to do its thing. I believe this also makes Navception work with Nav Menu Roles.
  • Rewriting the main Navception code also fixes a bug where the ‘menu-item-has-children’ class wouldn’t be added to menu items in a navcepted menu (Thanks to Emma for reporting :D)
  • Removed the need to include wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php by replacing the use of the ‘nav_menu_meta_box_object’ filter with a custom ‘navception_nav_menu_meta_box_object’ filter.
  • Updated the Admin JavaScript to work more efficiently.
  • Refactored to follow coding standards better.

…and 2 more changes

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

FaisonFaison
Plugin Info
Version
2.0.0
Last Updated
Oct 22, 2014
WP Requires
3.5+
Tested Up To
4.0.38
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
200
Downloads
10K+
Added
Jun 28, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

menumenussubmenusubmenusmenu item

Developer

F
Faison
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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