Export WordPress Menus
Export WordPress Menus plugin allows you to export your WordPress Menus. You can also export menus month wise. A filter is provided to export menus fo …
3.5(24 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Export WordPress Menus is a WordPress menus plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.5/5 rating from 24 reviews. It has been downloaded 67K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 1.4+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility.
3.5/524 reviews
1.0K+active installs
67K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Export WordPress Menus plugin allows you to export your WordPress Menus. You can also export menus month wise. A filter is provided to export menus for a range of months.
An xml file will be downloaded once the Download Export file button is clicked.
To import the menus into a WordPress site you can follow these steps:
- Log in to the site as an administrator
- Go to Tools: Import in the WordPress admin panel
- Install the “WordPress” importer from the list
- Activate & Run Importer
- Upload the xml file using the form provided on the page
- You will first be asked to map the authors in the export file to users on the site. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the site or to create a new user.
- WordPress will then import menus contained in the xml file into y…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Wont work in PHP8
by cvladan·2 years ago·2 replies
It doesn’t work on PHP 8.1 due to an error in debug_log, and in that case, the download dialog doesn’t appear. However, it works perfectly on PHP 7.4.
Warning Plugin Imports Pages
by sintrapsz·4 years ago
Plugin imports pages instead of widgets
Fantastic! (Why isn’t this in core?)
by bkjproductions·5 years ago
This worked out just great, thanks for saving me some time! Great job.
It is a little jarring to have to re-import authors, when I know the menus I want to import are only by one author, but I guess that is what comes along for the ride with WordPress using the default export tool.
Works fine
by Ferran Morillas·5 years ago
Do what I expected
- This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Ferran Morillas.
Does exactly what is says
by tatetaylor54·5 years ago
A useful addition to my plugins and works with custom menus created in Elementor Pro.
Download Trends
Today: 9Yesterday: 18This week: 84Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 1.4+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
92.1%
v1.1
5.7%
v1.0
2.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2 (26.08.2019)
- Changes in code to make the plugin compliant as per WPCS rules.
Contributors
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