Description
MenuItem Copy & Paste enhances the WordPress menu editing interface by adding five quick action buttons to each menu item, making menu management significantly more efficient.
Key Features
- ➕ New: Instantly create a new custom link below the selected menu item
- 📒 Clone: Duplicate a menu item immediately below itself
- 🔗 Copy: Copy menu item data to clipboard with visual highlight
- 📋 Paste: Paste copied items at the desired position
- 🗑️ Delete: Remove menu items without opening accordions
Perfect For
- Creating similar menu structures frequently
- Managing large numbers of menu items efficiently
- Quickly reorganizing menu layouts
- Editing menus without accordion interactions
Features
- Simple and intuitive UI
- Delete items without page reload (with fade-out animation)
- Support for all menu item types (pages, posts, custom links, taxonomies, etc.)
- Accurate position calculation considering hierarchical structure
- Preserves all metadata (URL, classes, attributes, etc.)
- Uses WordPress standard Dashicons
Support
If you have any issues or feature requests, please let us know in the plugin support forum.
Development
This plugin will also be available on GitHub. Contributions and issue reports are welcome.
Screenshots
Five buttons added to the menu editing interface (New, Clone, Copy, Paste, Delete) 
Visual highlight of copied menu items 
Confirmation dialog when deleting
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/menuitem-copy-pastedirectory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to Appearance Menus and start using the new buttons
FAQ
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Which WordPress versions are supported?
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WordPress 5.0 or higher. Tested up to the latest version (6.8).
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Can deleted items be restored?
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When you click the delete button, a confirmation dialog appears. Once deleted, items cannot be restored. However, if you don’t click “Save Menu” in WordPress, you can reload the page to revert changes.
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Yes. After copying a menu item, you can switch to a different menu and paste it there.
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Title: “New Custom Link”, URL: “/”. You can edit these after creation by opening the accordion.
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The current version copies individual menu items only. The Clone button duplicates only the selected item, excluding child hierarchies.
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.0.6
- Added New feature: instantly create custom links below items
- Added Clone feature: duplicate menu items immediately below
- Added Delete feature: remove items without opening accordions
- Added visual highlight (blue background) for copied items
- Improved button tooltips with detailed descriptions
- Enhanced security: strengthened $_POST variable validation
- Improved code quality: compliance with WordPress Coding Standards
1.0.4
- Added accurate position calculation considering hierarchical structure
- Implemented recursive descendant retrieval
1.0.3
- Initial release
- Menu item copy & paste functionality