MenuVerse Release History

Twenty seven ready-made looks for the bottom bar, rebuilt so they differ in shape rather than only in colour: flush or floating, full width or a short capsule in the middle of the screen, icons with wording, icons alone, or nothing but wording.

Nine frosted glass looks, each with its own opacity — from a pane you can read the page through to one that only admits light. Frosted looks were previously all held at the same weight, which is opaque enough that nothing showed through and they came out looking like plain bars.

New "Statement" looks: a button that rises out of the bar on a filled disc, a short grouped capsule, a black bar standing on a coloured glow, and a live pulsing dot on the current page.

Four looks that were really the same look twice have gone (Sand, Midnight capsule, Dusk, Noir). If your bar is already using one, nothing changes — a look only ever sets values, so your bar carries on exactly as it is.

Eleven of the looks are free, up from eight, because a look no longer counts as paid just for mentioning a paid setting it leaves switched off.

a module screen no longer prints its own name three times before the form, each look's description moved to a hover, settings rows line up down one column, and the cards around them lost the extra chrome.

The dashboard screen no longer shows admin notices from other plugins. It is a full screen app, and a stack of banners above it pushed everything you came for below the fold. Every other screen in your admin is untouched.

menuverse_hide_admin_notices and menuverse_current_url filters, and a --menuverse-bar-ring custom property.

a single colour palette and type scale across every screen, module cards with a preview sketch of what each module draws, and a "Settings" link on each one.

Support is now a screen inside the dashboard instead of a link that opened a new tab — it still opens Documentation and Contact support the same way when you follow those from other screens.

The "MenuVerse Pro" pitch was redrawn from front to back: a flat dark card in the sidebar and on the overview screen, and a row of what Pro adds instead of a long list.

Fixed a handful of dashboard buttons and links (the sidebar's upgrade card, the site-status link, "Compare" on the overview) rendering with the wrong colour due to a styling conflict with the admin UI library — purely visual, nothing to do with settings or data.

Block themes get Appearance → Menus back. WordPress only shows that screen when the theme asks for it, and block themes do not — so on a block theme there was no way to build a classic menu, and no way to reach the per-item icon and badge fields, which WordPress only offers there. MenuVerse now asks for it when nothing else has.

Themes that already have the screen are left exactly as they are, including block themes that register their own menu locations and sites where another plugin has already done this. No menu location is added and no admin page is registered, so there is nothing that can appear twice.

"Create a menu" now opens Appearance → Menus on block themes as well, instead of the site editor's navigation screen — a block navigation menu cannot carry MenuVerse's per-item icons and badges, so that was the wrong place to send you.

the new menuverse_classic_menus_screen filter turns this off for sites that build their navigation as block menus.

Renamed to "MenuVerse – Mobile Bottom Menu & App-Style Navigation Bar". The old name led with "Mega Menu", which is still marked Coming soon and renders nothing — the name and the plugin description now describe what actually ships today.

a slide-up panel of your own content behind a button, with the same one-at-a-time, Escape-to-close and focus-return behaviour as the search sheet.

your own images instead of the bundled icons, with a separate image or library icon for the current page.

per-button visibility — everyone, signed in, signed out, or named roles, read from the site’s own roles. Hidden buttons are left out of the markup, not hidden with CSS, so cached pages cannot leak them.

a sideways-scrolling mode as an alternative to the More drawer.

background picture with an optional colour wash, named shadow depths with their own colour, inline padding, item alignment, an explicit stacking order, and an icons-off option.

The free and Pro split now lives in one file and is stamped onto the settings schemas, so a setting can be free while only some of its answers need a licence, and a list can render its first rows free.

"Create a menu" now points at the site editor’s navigation screen on block themes, instead of a screen core never registered.

explanations moved into hints on their labels, groups collapse into fewer steps (the mobile menu goes from eight to five), one status chip per module card, and paid options are shown, disabled, and named rather than hidden.

the live preview can be switched off, remembered per browser rather than saved to the site.

Continuous integration on PHP 7.4 and 8.2 plus Node 20, with render and Pro-gating tests.

First public release.

off-canvas hamburger menu with accordion submenus, search, social links, and swipe to close.

app-style bottom navigation bar with More drawer, action buttons, and page visibility rules.

Dashboard with live preview, onboarding walkthrough, and settings import/export.

Classic and block Navigation menu sources with per-item icon and badge extras.

WooCommerce, YITH Wishlist, EDD, and Popup Maker integrations for bottom-bar buttons.

Gutenberg blocks, shortcodes, template tags, and optional automatic insertion for each module.