The Responsive Select Menu plugin automatically turns any WordPress 3 Menu into a select box / dropdown on mobile devices.
As of April 2026, Responsive Select Menu is a WordPress menu plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 42 reviews. It has been downloaded 218K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 9% this week. Top alternative: Admin Menu Editor.
View Demo 2 in a Responsive WordPress Theme
One common UI paradigm for navigation menus with responsive design is to display a select box (form element)
for mobile devices. This plugin allows you to turn your WordPress 3 menu into a select box below a width of your choice.
Through the Responsive Select Menu Control Panel you can:
I was hoping to just have the one menu plugin for my site but the responsive version looks like crap. It has very few options and all it does is collapse the whole menu into 3 bars, which looks awful expanded on mobile. A waste of money.
exactly what I was looking for. 🙂
Awesome settings too.
I needed to retrofit an old child theme of twentyeleven to improve on the functionality of the main menu. This plugin did the trick perfectly
Works as expected, so I use it for all my responsive WP sites.
Other than setting maximum width for when the dropdown menu appears, I didn’t change any default settings. It worked just fine.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.4.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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