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Menu Visibility Free

Show menu items only to logged-in or logged-out visitors

Set each navigation menu item to show for everyone, only logged-in visitors or only logged-out visitors.

Download free or read the Menu Visibility docs

Free on WordPress.org, with nothing locked behind Pro.

in the free plugin
Free
last improved in
3.4.0
Admin Tools modules
12
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Why you need Menu Visibility

Sites with accounts need a Login link for visitors and an Account link for members. Without visibility rules, everyone sees both.

What Menu Visibility does

  • Per menu item A visibility setting on every item in Appearance → Menus.
  • Three choices Everyone, logged-in visitors only, or logged-out visitors only.

Set it up

In WordPress, open WP Extended and find Menu Visibility under Admin Tools.

Full setup guide
  1. 01 Turn on Menu Visibility under Admin Tools.
  2. 02 Open Appearance → Menus and expand an item.
  3. 03 Under Menu Item Visibility For, choose Logged In, Logged Out or Everyone, then save the menu.

Where Menu Visibility helps

  • A photographer in her studio with WP Extended open on a desktop monitor

    Login and account links

    Show Login to visitors and My Account to members.

  • A freelance web designer on a sofa with WP Extended open on her laptop, her dog asleep beside her

    Member-only sections

    Hide links to areas a visitor can’t open anyway.

Menu Visibility vs Nav Menu Roles

Nav Menu Roles has 70k+ active installs on WordPress.org. If you only need this one job, that’s a fine choice. If the site also needs other modules on this list, it’s one less plugin to update.

What Menu Visibility covers
Showing each menu item to everyone, logged-in visitors or logged-out visitors.
When to choose the specialist plugin
If you need to show items to specific user roles, a dedicated plugin such as Nav Menu Roles does that.

Recent changes

The latest updates to Menu Visibility, from the WP Extended changelog.

Full changelog
  1. v3.4.0 3 Nov 2026
    • improved

      Visibility is now chosen from a dropdown, spaced to match WordPress’s own menu fields.

    • fixed

      The Move links on the Menus screen showed the visibility label instead of the menu item’s title.

Menu Visibility questions

Menu Visibility documentation

Yes. It is in the free plugin.

No. Menu Visibility works on whether a visitor is logged in or not. For admin pages, Menu Editor does control access by role.

No. It only hides the link. Protect the page itself with your membership plugin or page settings.

Duplicate Menu copies a navigation menu, and Menu Editor tidies the admin sidebar. See all three WordPress menu tools.

Pairs well with

All Admin Tools

Get Menu Visibility free

Menu Visibility is in the free plugin on WordPress.org, alongside 34 other free modules you can switch on when you need them.

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