Giuliomax Menu Builder lets you create fully customized navigation menus and embed them anywhere using the [menux] shortcode. Build your menu visually from the WordPress admin, style it with colors and typography, and it works perfectly on desktop, tablet and mobile.
✨ Main Features
- Visual menu builder — drag-and-drop interface to add pages, custom links, icons, badges, notification dots and submenus up to 3 levels
- 20 Pre-built Templates — Choose from over 20 ready-to-use themes and use them with a single click
- Page + custom link support — use existing WP pages or external URLs, with target controls and role visibility
- Advanced item targeting — show/hide items by user role, login state, device, current page, schedule, time range or UTM source
- Menu location assignment — tag items for Primary, Footer, Sidebar or Mobile and render with
[menux location="..."]
- Responsive mobile menu — automatic fit-based breakpoint or manual pixel threshold
- 4 mobile opening modes — Dropdown, Fullscreen overlay, Drawer left, Drawer right
- Hamburger style controls — classic, modern or minimal icon appearance, alignment and colors
- Sticky header — fixed menu on scroll with background, shadow, alignment, shrink and auto-hide behavior
- Scroll progress bar — page reading indicator that works on sticky or normal menus
- Dark mode support — Light, Dark or Auto (follows OS preference)
- Typography & layout — Google Fonts, fallback font, size, weight, spacing and text transform
- Link animations — hover effects like Lift, Scale, Pulse, Bounce, Shake, Glow and Underline
- Entrance animations — Fade, Slide, Zoom, Flip with duration, delay and stagger controls
- Import / Export — save and restore menu configurations as JSON
- Multilingual ready — WPML, Polylang and TranslatePress support with language-specific item labels
- Live preview — desktop/tablet/mobile preview while building the menu
🎨 Style Options
- Colors: background, links, hover, active state, submenus, last item
- Typography: Google Fonts, font family, size, weight, letter spacing, text transform
- Layout: gap, padding, item alignment, push-last-right
- Mobile: breakpoint, overlay color and opacity, blur, drawer width, open animation
🔌 Usage
- Go to Giuliomax Menu Builder in the WordPress admin sidebar
- Build your menu items
- Configure colors and style
- Place
[menux] in any page, post, widget or template
🚀 Pro Version
The Pro version adds:
- 📊 Click statistics — track which items users click, by device, role and date
- 🖼️ Logo — add and position a logo image inside the menu
- 🔍 Search bar — instant full-text search modal with keyboard navigation
- ♿ Accessibility panel — WCAG 2.1 tools (focus outline, skip link, reduced motion, high contrast, ARIA labels)
- 🌈 Gradients — CSS gradient backgrounds for container, hover and active states
- 🎨 Custom CSS — write your own CSS rules directly from the admin panel
- 📄 Multiple menus — create and manage independent menu configurations for different pages or locations
External Services
This plugin may connect to the following external service:
Google Fonts (optional)
If a Google Font name is entered in the Style panel (Typography tab), the plugin loads that font’s stylesheet from Google’s servers at https://fonts.googleapis.com. This request is made only when a Google Font is explicitly configured by the site administrator. The font name and the visitor’s IP address are sent to Google as part of the standard HTTP request.
- Terms of service: https://developers.google.com/terms
- Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Font Awesome icons are bundled locally within the plugin and do not load from any external server.