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Menu Visibility Control

by Davis Simiyu Wanyonyi on WordPress.org

Control WordPress menu item visibility based on login status, user roles, device type, or specific pages — lightweight and theme-agnostic.

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Visibility controls inside the WordPress menu editor.

Visibility controls inside the WordPress menu editor.

Menu Visibility Control is a lightweight, privacy-friendly WordPress plugin that lets you decide exactly who sees each menu item, directly inside the WordPress menu editor.

No settings pages.
No lock-in.
No performance overhead.

Everything is managed where it belongs: Appearance Menus.

👁️ Visibility Options Per Menu Item

You can control visibility based on:

  • 👥 Everyone
  • 🔒 Logged-in users
  • 🚪 Logged-out users
  • 🧩 Specific user roles (Administrator, Editor, Subscriber, etc.)
  • 📱 Device type (Desktop / Tablet / Mobile)
  • 📄 Specific pages (auto-detected list)

All conditions are optional and safely combined.

💡 Perfect For

  • Membership and community websites
  • Client dashboards and intranets
  • Multi-role WordPress sites
  • Sites with mobile-specific navigation
  • Blogs that need different menus for visitors vs members

🔧 Key Features

  • Native integration with Appearance Menus
  • Works with any theme or page builder
  • Role-based menu visibility
  • Device-based menu visibility
  • Page-specific menu visibility
  • Auto-hidden UI (only shows options when enabled)
  • Secure (nonces, sanitization, strict validation)
  • Performance-optimized (runs only during menu rendering)
  • 100% free, open-source, and donation-supported

🧠 Why Use Menu Visibility Control?

Unlike large menu or membership plugins, this plugin:

  • Uses only WordPress core hooks
  • Stores minimal metadata
  • Is compatible with caching, multilingual sites, and block themes
  • Does not track users or collect data

It does one thing — and does it well.

Support

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License

This plugin is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.

You are free to use, modify, and redistribute it under the same license.

Code is Poetry. ❤️

Active installations200+
Weekly downloads
66-1.49%
Version1.0.9
Last updated1/5/2026
WordPress version5.8
Tested up to6.9.1
PHP version7.2
Tags
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