Menu In Post

77 Quality Score

Active Installs

15/30

With about 2,000 active installs, adoption is modest and reflects its narrow feature scope rather than any quality problem.

Update Freshness

25/25

Updated as recently as May 2026 and tested up to WordPress 7.0, the maintenance signal is strong and recent.

User Rating

15/15

A perfect 100 from 8 reviewers is encouraging but the sample is very small and not yet statistically meaningful.

Support Health

8/15

One open support thread with a 0 percent resolution rate is a yellow flag, though the volume is too low to draw a strong conclusion.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Requires WordPress 6.4 and PHP 7.4, which lines up with current standards and gives a full compatibility score.

Scores higher than 58% of indexed plugins

About

A simple but flexible plugin to allow the use of menus in posts and pages.

Active Installs 2k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2026-08-20 6:44pm GMT

Requires WordPress 6.4+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 7.4+

Security History

1 known vulnerability, all patched

1 Medium

Most recent: December 30, 2025

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What It Does

Menu In Post is a lightweight WordPress plugin that lets you embed any registered navigation menu inside a post or page using a shortcode. It targets content sites that need in-content navigation, such as a table of contents, a category index, or an inline site map within a specific article. The plugin focuses on a single job and does not attempt to rebuild or restyle your existing menus.

Who It's For

This plugin fits documentation sites, knowledge bases, course platforms, and directory-style blogs where readers benefit from contextual navigation placed mid-article. It is also useful for restaurants, real estate listings, and membership sites that want a menu or resource list embedded directly in a page rather than only in the header or sidebar. If you already use WordPress nav menus and want to drop them into content with a shortcode, this is the tool.

Who Should Skip It

If you need mega menus, conditional visibility, or a full menu-building suite, this plugin is too narrow for you and you should look at Max Mega Menu or User Menus instead. Sites that only need navigation in widget areas or theme locations do not need a shortcode-based solution either.

The Bottom Line

Menu In Post is a tidy, narrowly scoped plugin that does one thing well: putting menus inside posts via shortcode. Its 77.28 quality score is solid, held back mainly by limited adoption and thin support history rather than any code problem. Use it when you specifically need in-content menu embedding, otherwise a broader shortcode or menu plugin will serve you better.

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