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WP Featured Menus

Provides a metabox on posts and pages listing existing WordPress Menus.

By Topher·Menus·Free
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·10 active installs·Updated 10 years ago
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As of April 2026, WP Featured Menus is a WordPress menus plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 2.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 10 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility.

0/5Rating
10active installs
2.3K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

This plugin provides a metabox on posts and pages listing existing WordPress Menus. The end user is allowed to choose one and make it associated with the post or page via meta data.

Practically speaking, Featured Menus work exactly like Featured Images. The Post or Page and Featured Menu are merely attached, and you must use a template tag or WordPress functions to render the Menu.

Please see Other Notes for examples.

Usage

Page or Post meta has a key called _wp_featured_menu. A very simple way to render the menu is like this:

<?php
    $meta = get_post_custom();
    wp_nav_menu( array( 'menu' => $meta['_wp_featured_menu'][0] ) );
?>

A better way might be to test for the value first:

<?php
    $meta = get_post_custom();
    if ( is_numeric( $meta['_wp_featured_menu'][0] )…
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Ratings & Reviews

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Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.3.34
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.3.1

Check for WP 4.0

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

TopherTopher
Plugin Info
Version
1.3.1
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2015
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
4.3.34
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
2.3K+
Added
Jun 23, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

menuspagespostsfeatured

Developer

T
Topher
10 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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