12 Best WordPress Navigation Plugins

Enhance your WordPress site's user experience with advanced navigation plugins. Create custom menus, mega menus, and improve site structure.

Breadcrumb NavXT icon

Breadcrumb NavXT

Active Installations: 900,000+

4.6

131 ratings

Updated: 1/10/2025

Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location.

Max Mega Menu icon

Max Mega Menu

Active Installations: 400,000+

4.8

798 ratings

Updated: 11/20/2024

An easy to use mega menu plugin. Written the WordPress way.

WP-PageNavi icon

WP-PageNavi

Active Installations: 500,000+

4.7

149 ratings

Updated: 12/19/2024

Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.

Menu Icons by ThemeIsle icon

Menu Icons by ThemeIsle

Active Installations: 200,000+

4.9

828 ratings

Updated: 11/12/2024

Spice up your navigation menus with pretty icons, easily.

LuckyWP Table of Contents icon

LuckyWP Table of Contents

Active Installations: 100,000+

4.9

836 ratings

Updated: 1/24/2025

Creates SEO-friendly table of contents for your posts/pages. Works automatically or manually (via shortcode, Gutenberg block or widget).

Responsive Menu – Create Mobile-Friendly Menu icon

Responsive Menu – Create Mobile-Friendly Menu

Active Installations: 90,000+

4.5

541 ratings

Updated: 11/13/2024

Highly customisable Responsive Menu plugin with 150+ options. No coding knowledge needed to design it exactly as you want.

Page scroll to id icon

Page scroll to id

Active Installations: 100,000+

4.9

222 ratings

Updated: 11/17/2024

Create links that scroll the page smoothly to any id within the document.

Menu Image, Icons made easy icon

Menu Image, Icons made easy

Active Installations: 100,000+

4.5

124 ratings

Updated: 11/15/2024

Adds an image or icon in the menu items. You can choose the position of the image (after, before, above, below) or even hide the menu item title.

WP-Paginate icon

WP-Paginate

Active Installations: 20,000+

4.6

104 ratings

Updated: 2/19/2025

WP-Paginate is a simple and flexible pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site.

WP Mega Menu icon

WP Mega Menu

Active Installations: 10,000+

4.4

220 ratings

Updated: 11/3/2021

WordPress Mega Menu is a responsive, highly customizable drag and drop menu builder plugin. Download free WordPress megamenu plugin.

ShiftNav – Responsive Mobile Menu icon

ShiftNav – Responsive Mobile Menu

Active Installations: 10,000+

4.6

68 ratings

Updated: 9/17/2024

Add a native-style, off-canvas, responsive mobile navigation menu to your site.

Collapsing Categories icon

Collapsing Categories

Active Installations: 5,000+

4.1

57 ratings

Updated: 12/16/2024

Adds a widget which uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of posts for each category.

How We Rank Plugins

To determine the Best WordPress Navigation Plugins we used a comprehensive scoring system that considers multiple factors. We analyze active installations, download counts, user ratings, and rating consistency on a weekly basis. To ensure quality, we only include plugins with a substantial number of reviews. This methodology helps us identify plugins that are not only popular but also consistently reliable and well-maintained.