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Multisite Shared Menu

Description

Allows users in a WordPress multisite network pull in menus from a main site in order to achieve universal navigation or shared navigation without needing to manually recreate menus.

Plugin is intended for WordPress Multisite environment for plugin to function properly and use the same theme to ensure menu name compatibility.

Screenshots

  • Multisite Shared Menu options menu

Installation

  1. Copy the folder into your /wp-content/plugins directory.
  2. Activate for the sites you wish to use plugin on. NOTE: Should not be activated on master menu site, and all sites sharing menus should use the same theme.
  3. If your master/main site does not yet have a menu, set up a menu to use as a “master”.
  4. To use this menu on other sites, browse to the site you wish to use the menu on.
  5. Navigate to ‘Shared Menu Settings’ under the ‘Appearance’ menu.
  6. Select the source site that contains the menu you wish to use and select the menu location(s) to pull in from your primary site.
  7. Click ‘save changes’ to save your changes.

Reviews

Kasambula 22, 2020
It works on the latest WordPress multisite as of this review date
Ogwomwenda (Mutunda) 3, 2016
Breaks admin bar on any site this plugin is active on. The admin bar will act like you are on the site that this plugin is getting the shared menus from. I’ll change my rating if this bug is fixed.
Ogwomwenda (Mutunda) 3, 2016 1 reply
I have a multisite installation with one master site and one child. Needed the child to look and feel exactly like the parent site, and I didn’t want to worry about updating the menu twice. This worked for me. I had to create an empty menu on the child site and assign it to the appropriate location, and then it worked.
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Contributors & Developers

“Multisite Shared Menu” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.2

Multiple menu selection! You can now include one or more menus from your master menu site.

1.11

Documentation improvements and screenshots.

1.1

Fixed bugs relating to registered menu locations.

1.0

Initial Release