10 Best Advanced Sidebar Menu Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Advanced Sidebar Menu has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Advanced Sidebar Menu
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Off-Canvas Sidebars
Closest matchOff-Canvas Sidebars & Menus (Slidebars)
4.8 (38) 1,000+ active installsAdd off-canvas sidebars (Slidebars) containing widgets, menus or other content using the Slidebars jQuery plugin.
Shares the menus, sidebars tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 10,000+, last updated February 2, 2026.
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5.0 (23) 5,000+ active installsPreserves the category hierarchy on the post editing screen
Shares the hierarchy tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.6 (48) 10,000+ active installsGet a tree view of all your pages directly in the admin menu. Search, add, edit, view, re-order – all is just one click away!
Shares the hierarchy tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated May 21, 2026.
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4.9 (54) 20,000+ active installsEasily assign custom, widget-enabled sidebars to any page.
Shares the sidebars tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since February 23, 2025.
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4.9 (219) 70,000+ active installsHide custom menu items based on user roles.
Shares the menus tag on WordPress.org. About 7 times the installs, last updated March 26, 2026.
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4.7 (82) 50,000+ active installsAllows you to add shortcodes in WordPress Navigation Menus.
Shares the menus tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated February 10, 2026.
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Widgets in Menu for WordPress
4.8 (21) 8,000+ active installsAllows you to add Widgets in WordPress Navigation Menus
Shares the menus tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since June 27, 2018.
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4.8 (24) 7,000+ active installsAllow and control Editor and Shop Manager access to the menus, widgets and appearance menu, plus other menus and adminbar items.
Shares the menus tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since June 2, 2021.
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User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility
5.0 (1,278) 80,000+ active installsShow/hide menu items to logged in users, logged out users or specific user roles. Display logged in user details in menu. Add a logout link to menu.
Shares the menus tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated May 23, 2026.
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5.0 (20) 5,000+ active installsAdd navigation menu field type to Advanced Custom Fields
Shares the menus tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since June 10, 2025.
Switching from Advanced Sidebar Menu: common questions
What is the best alternative to Advanced Sidebar Menu?
Off-Canvas Sidebars is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 1,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Advanced Sidebar Menu alternative has the most users?
User Menus, with 80,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Advanced Sidebar Menu alternative is rated highest?
User Menus, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 1,278 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Advanced Sidebar Menu alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Advanced Sidebar Menu score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Advanced Sidebar Menu on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Off-Canvas Sidebars is the closest match to Advanced Sidebar Menu by the data we track, and User Menus has the widest reach with 80,000+ active installs. User Menus shipped the most recent release, on May 23, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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