10 Best Nav Menu Roles Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Nav Menu Roles has 70,000+ 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 Nav Menu Roles
- 1
User Menus
Closest matchUser 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 menu, menus, nav menu tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 5.0 against 4.9, last updated May 23, 2026.
- 2
4.7 (23) 1,000+ active installsAdds search box as a choice of item in navigation menus admin area.
Shares the menu, nav menu, nav menus tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 70,000+, no update since November 28, 2017.
- 3
5.0 (20) 5,000+ active installsAdd navigation menu field type to Advanced Custom Fields
Shares the menu, menus, nav menu tags on WordPress.org. 5,000+ installs against 70,000+, no update since June 10, 2025.
- 4
4.8 (877) 300,000+ active installsAn easy to use mega menu plugin. Written the WordPress way.
Shares the menu tag on WordPress.org. About 4.3 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 5 days ago.
- 5
QuadMenu – Mega Menu
4.5 (269) 10,000+ active installsResponsive mega menu plugin for WordPress with customizable layouts and an intuitive drag-and-drop builder.
Shares the menu tag on WordPress.org. 10,000+ installs against 70,000+, rated 4.5 against 4.9, last updated 14 days ago.
- 6
4.9 (138) 20,000+ active installsWP Menu Icons allows you to add icons to your WordPress menu items.
Shares the menu tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
- 7
Menu Image, Icons made easy
4.5 (123) 100,000+ active installsAdds 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.
Shares the menu, nav menu tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.5 against 4.9, no update since July 20, 2025.
- 8
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 menu, menus tags on WordPress.org. 7,000+ installs against 70,000+, no update since June 2, 2021.
- 9
Premium Addons for Elementor
Paid version availablePremium Addons for Elementor – Elementor Templates, Widgets & MCP Tools
4.9 (1,677) 600,000+ active installsElementor Carousel, Mega Menu, Posts List/Slider, WooCommerce Widgets, Display Conditions, AI Abilities, Premade Templates & more.
About 8.6 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
- 10
Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
4.8 (611) 600,000+ active installsElementor templates, Header footer builder, Elementor Post Grid, Woocommerce Grid builder, Slider, Forms, Gallery, Nav menu addons, Elementor widgets.
About 8.6 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 21 days ago.
Switching from Nav Menu Roles: common questions
What is the best alternative to Nav Menu Roles?
User Menus is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 80,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Nav Menu Roles alternative has the most users?
Premium Addons for Elementor, with 600,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Nav Menu Roles 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 Nav Menu Roles 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 Nav Menu Roles 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 Nav Menu Roles 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
User Menus is the closest match to Nav Menu Roles by the data we track, and Premium Addons for Elementor has the widest reach with 600,000+ active installs. Premium Addons for Elementor shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
Weekly · free
What moved this week
One email a week, built from the same daily snapshots these rankings come from: the plugins that climbed, what launched, and one ranking worth a look.