Menu Backup & Restore + Import/Export

Menu Backup & Restore protects your WordPress menus with automatic backups, one-click restoration, and powerful import/export capabilities. Transfer menus between sites seamlessly with intelligent object mapping that ensures your menu structure remains intact.

Key Features

• Automatic backup of menus when they are updated
• Easy restoration of previous menu versions
• Import and export menus as JSON files for portability or locally saved backups
• Transfer menus between sites with intelligent object mapping, can be used to update menus from development to production sites without full site migration
• Manual mapping interface to override automatic matches and map menu items to specific pages, posts, or taxonomies during import
• Preserves complete menu structure: hierarchy, theme locations, and CSS classes for each menu item
• Configurable maximum number of backups to keep
• See who saved and created the backup
• Tab-based interface for better organization
• Simple and intuitive user interface
• No database modifications required
• Lightweight and fast

How It Works

1. The plugin automatically creates a backup whenever you update a menu
2. Backups are stored in the WordPress options table with complete menu structure (hierarchy, locations, CSS classes)
3. You can view and manage backups from the Menus page
4. Restore any previous version with a single click, preserving all menu settings
5. Export backups as JSON files for portability or import to other sites
6. Configure the maximum number of backups to keep in the settings

Requirements

• WordPress 5.0 or higher
• PHP 7.2 or higher

What Users Have to Say on Reddit

“That’s a super useful idea! Menus are so easy to wipe out by accident, and restoring from a full backup always feels like overkill. Nice work!”

“Really appreciate it, This will come in handy alot!”

“Oh man, I’ve done this before too. Lost a big menu while trying to rearrange items and it was gone in a click. Ended up re-building from scratch.
This plugin sounds like a lifesaver — surprised WordPress hasn’t built something like this in by default.”

“Kind of an automatic backup vs having to schedule one.”

“that’s a killer quality of life plugin wp’s missing so many of those “one click undo” features for common mistakes”

“Great idea! I do this more often than I care to admit. This needs to be in Core!”

“Dude I literally do this all the time and actually did it less than an hour ago. I hate how the WordPress menu isn’t stored normally. Thanks for this!”