Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field Plugin Review
Explore the capabilities of Advanced Custom Fields: Nav Menu Field plugin to enhance your website's navigation effortlessly.
Overview
Compatibility
Installation instructions
Customer support & learning resources
Changelog
Main benefits
Easy menu selection
Supports ACF versions 4 & 5
Flexible menu return types
Enhanced page-specific menus
Custom Post Types support
About this plugin
Author: Faison
Categories: Integration and APIs
Version: 2.0.0
Last updated: 15-10-2014
WordPress version: 3.4
Tested up to: 4.0.38
PHP version required: false
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Overview
The Nav Menu Field plugin for WordPress enhances the functionality of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) by introducing a Nav Menu Field type, compatible with ACF versions 4 and 5. This plugin allows users to seamlessly integrate navigation menus created in the WordPress Admin backend into their website's frontend through ACF. Offering flexible options, the field can return the selected menu’s ID for lightweight coding, an object for advanced programming, or HTML (generated from `wp_nav_menu`) for quick menu displays. This tool is especially useful for displaying dynamic secondary menus that change depending on the page, whether those pages are hierarchical or involve Custom Post Types. Users can easily select the desired menu from a drop-down menu while creating new pages or custom posts, making it simple to manage complex navigation structures.
Enhanced Menu Selection
- Adds Nav Menu Field type to ACF.
- Allows selection from menus created in WordPress Admin backend.
- Supports both ACF version 5 and 4.
Flexible Menu Return Types
- Return menu ID for lightweight coding.
- Return menu Object for more involved programming.
- Return HTML for quickly displaying a menu.
Dynamic Menu Display
- Display secondary menus that change depending on the page.
- Supports Custom Post Types for more complex menu structures.
- Easily select menus from a dropdown when creating new Pages or Custom Posts.
Developer Friendly
- Extend functionality of Advanced Custom Fields.
- Ideal for developers needing custom menu solutions.
- Encourages user feedback for continuous improvement.
Rating and reviews
Gabor Lippert
19 Feb, 2023
All in the title 🙂
Quick addition: as others feedbacked here many years ago, this plugin is a must-have to all developers actively working with ACF – it’s a shame it’s not showing up in the WP plugins earch for the sole reason it hasn’t been updated for a long time.
Nikola Dimitrijević
30 Oct, 2018
It works with 4.9.8, but could use few more options
This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by Nikola Dimitrijević.
Sheenmo
28 Jun, 2018
Worked perfectly. It took me 5 minutes to install, add menu and output it to a page.
Yuval
13 Jun, 2018
Let’s don’t make any mistakes here – this addon is perfect and needs no changes, that’s why there is nothing to update here.
Used it in many sites. Thank you!
Tracy Rotton
15 Dec, 2017
This plugin might be old, but it still works perfectly and does exactly what I needed. No PHP errors, warnings, or notices, either. Running with ACF PRO 5.6.7 and WordPress 4.9.1.
