Widget Menuizer
Unlock the full potential of the WordPress menu system to create mega menus and more by adding sidebar regions and widgets to your menus.
4.3(6 reviews)
·700 active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Widget Menuizer is a WordPress menus plugin with 700 active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.9.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Top alternative: User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility.
4.3/56 reviews
700active installs
14K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Anything you can do with a widget can now be done inside your menus!
Widget Menuizer makes WordPress menus even more powerful, allowing for easy creation of custom “mega menus” and other fanciness without completely overhauling the menu management system into something unrecognizable.
Upon activation, navigate to the menu management screen under Appearance > Menus, and you’ll find a new option for Sidebars under the familiar Pages, Posts, Links, Categories and Tags list. Here, you can view all the sidebar regions that exist in your currently-active theme. Simply check a box to add a sidebar into your menu the same way you would for any other menu item.
Once in your menu, you’ll see a new option for “Container Element,” which specifies which HTML tag is wrapped a…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.9.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.1.3
- Fixed an issue in v1.1.2 that could cause fatal errors, depending on whether or not other plugins modified the load order of WordPress code files.
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