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
Active Installations: 900,000+
131 ratings
Updated: 1/10/2025
Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor's path to their current location.
Max Mega Menu
Active Installations: 400,000+
798 ratings
Updated: 11/20/2024
An easy to use mega menu plugin. Written the WordPress way.
WP-PageNavi
Active Installations: 500,000+
149 ratings
Updated: 12/19/2024
Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.
Menu Icons by ThemeIsle
Active Installations: 200,000+
828 ratings
Updated: 11/12/2024
Spice up your navigation menus with pretty icons, easily.
LuckyWP Table of Contents
Active Installations: 100,000+
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
Active Installations: 90,000+
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
Active Installations: 100,000+
222 ratings
Updated: 11/17/2024
Create links that scroll the page smoothly to any id within the document.
Menu Image, Icons made easy
Active Installations: 100,000+
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
Active Installations: 20,000+
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
Active Installations: 10,000+
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
Active Installations: 10,000+
68 ratings
Updated: 9/17/2024
Add a native-style, off-canvas, responsive mobile navigation menu to your site.
Collapsing Categories
Active Installations: 5,000+
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.
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