Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO

Fully automatic sidebar menus.

9.9.1

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2025-07-15

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Everything you need, nothing you don’t.

Advanced Sidebar Menu PRO makes managing your menus fully automatic. With just enough options to get the job done, this WordPress plugin is extremely lightweight and easy to use.

Accordion Menus

Accordion menus take your menus to the next level by giving your users the ability to open and close sections of your menu. You can choose to keep all your menus closed until a user clicks an icon or just leave the top levels open. Choose the icon style and color that matches your site and you’re ready to go.

Style Options

Give your menus some style to dress them up to match your site. You can choose different styles for different levels on your menu. You can select a bullet style for your menu with seven styles to choose from, or select none to show no bullets. You can even style the current item or parent of the current item separately. Intuitive color pickers make choosing colors easy. Be sure to try out the “block styling” option.

Post Types and Taxonomies

Create menus from the post types and taxonomies your site supports. Works out of the box with any public, hierarchical post type or taxonomy your site supports. Use a simple dropdown to select your post type or taxonomy and the rest is automatic. This is commonly used for things like WooCommerce product categories.

Navigation Menus

Turn your WordPress custom menus into sidebar menus by using the Advanced Sidebar - Navigation widget or block. Any menu created within Appearance -> Menus may be used! Want to add some styles or maybe an accordion? No problem! These menus support all style and accordion options, as well as options to display the current items only.

Link Adjustments

Ever wanted to change the text displayed in the menu? Now you can! This plugin creates simple options available on every page which let you customize how it is handled. Changing the text is as easy as entering it into a field. Excluding a page from all menus is done with a single click checkbox.

Priority Support

Priority Support is having your own support team standing by to make sure you are successful. In-depth troubleshooting, guidance, styling assistance, extending, and filtering are just a few things included with Priority Support. You also get access to the members only support area.

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Feature
Basic
PRO
Page and Category menu Gutenberg blocks.
Page and Category menu widgets.
Option to display or not display the highest level parent page or category.
Option to display the menu when there is only the highest level parent.
Ability to order pages by date, title, or page order.
Exclude pages or categories by entering a comma-separated list of ids.
Option to always display child pages or categories.
Option to select the levels of pages or categories to display when "always display child" is used.
Option to display or not display categories on single posts.
Ability to display each single post's category in a new widget or in the same list.
Navigation menu widget.
Navigation menu Gutenberg block.
Ability to customize each category or page link title with a simple text field.
Click-and-drag styling for page, category, and navigation menus.
Styling options for links including color, background color, size, hover, and font weight.
Styling options for different levels of links.
Styling options for the current page or category.
Styling options for the parent of the current page or category.
Blocked styling options including borders, border width, and border colors.
Option to choose from 7 bullet styles or no bullets.
Accordion menu support for pages, categories, and navigation menus.
Accordion icon style and color selection.
Accordion option to keep all sections closed until clicked.
Accordion option to include highest level parent in accordion.
Accordion option to use links for open/close.
Ability to exclude a page from all menus using a simple checkbox.
Ability to exclude category from all menus using a simple checkbox.
Link ordering for category menus.
Number of levels of pages to show when "always display child pages" is not checked.
Ability to select and display custom post types.
Ability to select and display custom taxonomies.
Ability to display category post counts.
Exclude pages or categories using intuitive search and select.   New
Option to display only the current page's parents, grandparents, and children.
Option to display child page siblings when on a child page (with or without grandchildren available).
Ability to display the menu on every page (including homepage if applicable).
Ability to select the highest level parent page/category.
Ability to select which levels of categories assigned posts will display under.
Ability to display assigned posts or custom post types under categories or taxonomies.
Ability to limit the number of posts or custom post types to display under categories.
Support for custom navigation menus from Appearance -> Menus.
Ability to display the current navigation menu item's parents and children only.
Option to display the top-level navigation menu items when there are no child items or not viewing a menu item.
Priority support with access to members only support area.
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  1. Deanne Holzman –

    Very helpful and well written plugin – Support is above & beyond expecations

    This plugin is extremely helpful in organizing our large site side navigation with many sections and sub sections. It’s also very customizable and easy to set up.

    It’s extremely well thought out and can be used right out of the box or heavily customized.

  2. Evaristo –

    Great Plugin! Well worth the money

  3. Estelle Silva –

    I absolutely love the Advanced Sidebar pro, but the support I get is even more wonderful. This is my first time building a website and at 2 occasions I couldn’t figure out how it worked and I send them a support request. Within almost minutes I got all the replies. They advised me very quickly, and even adjusted the settings in my widget, so it would work. First time they added an extra option, second time they changed something in my website.

    Thank you for all your help.

    And thank you for the wonderful plugin. I love it! And it is really easy to use.

  4. bennie214 –

    The menus offer plenty of style options for the majority of my projects. The documentation tells me the rest.

  5. Mercedes –

    Fantastic support A++++
    Above and beyond helpful. My issue turned out to be user error and the guys over here were polite and walked me through the widget settings without making me feel stupid. Way better than what I usually get from plugin companies.

  6. zihniates –

    Not working at twentytwentyone theme.

    • OnPoint Plugins –

      This plugin does work with the twentytwentyone theme. In fact we have a whole test site dedicated to the twentytwentyone theme.
      It is worth noting that out of the box the twentytwentyone theme does not contain any widget areas besides the footer. As themes define their own widget areas, there not much this plugin can do about adding sidebar support to a theme.
      If you are unable to see the widgets in the footer, please see the FAQ section which explains the most common reasons why a widget does not show up.

  7. firefly2000 –

    Advanced Sidebar Menus is a nice little plugin that does what it says it does right out of the box. All you have to do is place the correct widget (for page hierarchy OR post category hierarchy) in the right location. Good job!

  8. Carrie Jennings –

    I tried the free version first to make sure it would work for my site thinking I really wanted the paid version. I was right, the paid version is much better and what I needed. This seems like the kind of widgets that should be included in WordPress core, but they are not.

    Thank you Advanced Sidebar Menu for making my project, and my day. 🙂

  9. C. Patterson –

    Great plugin! Great support!

  10. ALAIN MINNOY –

    I have 2 questions
    1) How can I add the number of posts in each category instead of displaying each post name
    2) If a post belong to a category, then to its subcategory, then to its sub-sub-category, how can I display the post name only on the sub-sub-category?

    Thanks for this great plugin

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