Swift Menu Duplicator Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Swift Menu Duplicator gives you full control over your WordPress navigation menus. Clone any menu in one click, manage all menus from a dedicated admin page, version them with snapshots, move them across Multisite sub-sites, and automate everything from the command line or REST API.
One-Click Duplication
- Duplicate button right in the menu editor footer — no page reload required
- Full hierarchy preserved via a two-pass clone that remaps all parent-child item IDs
- All item metadata copied — type, object, URL, target, CSS classes, XFN, description
- Duplicate individual menu items directly from the menu editor
- Custom name support — filter
swift_menu_duplicator_new_menu_nameto override the default “(Copy)” suffix
Snapshot Revisions
- Auto-snapshot — a snapshot is saved automatically before every menu save
- Manual snapshots — save named snapshots from the menu editor at any time
- Browse & restore — view all snapshots in an expandable panel and restore with one click
- Housekeeping — delete individual snapshots you no longer need
Menu Manager (Appearance Menu Manager)
- Dedicated page listing every menu on the site in a sortable WP_List_Table
- Bulk duplicate — clone multiple menus at once
- Bulk export — download selected menus as a single ZIP archive
- Bulk delete — remove multiple menus in one action
- Row actions — duplicate or export individual menus directly from the list
JSON Export / Import
- Export any menu to a portable JSON file (via admin or REST API)
- Import from a JSON file upload or paste JSON directly into the text area
- URL find & replace — swap domain names during import for staging production migrations
- Dry-run preview — review what will be imported before making any changes to the database
Multisite Support
- Copy any menu to another site in your WordPress Multisite network
- Automatic URL rewriting in item URLs when copying across sub-sites
REST API
Full REST API at /wp-json/cmd/v1/ for headless and block-editor integrations:
POST /menus/{id}/duplicate— duplicate a menu (optionalnameparameter)GET /menus/{id}/export— export a menu as a JSON payloadPOST /menus/{id}/items/{item_id}/duplicate— duplicate a single menu item
Permission is controlled by the swmd_rest_permission filter (defaults to edit_theme_options).
WP-CLI
Full command-line support under the wp swift-menu-duplicator command group:
wp swift-menu-duplicator duplicate <menu-id> [--name=<name>]— duplicate a menuwp swift-menu-duplicator export <menu-id> [--output=<file>]— export to JSONwp swift-menu-duplicator import <file> [--name=<name>] [--find=<str>] [--replace=<str>] [--dry-run] [--porcelain]— import from JSONwp swift-menu-duplicator copy-to-site <menu-id> --target-blog=<id> [--name=<name>] [--find=<str>] [--replace=<str>]— copy to a sub-site
Multilingual Compatibility
- WPML — translation meta keys (
_icl_lang_duplicate_of,wpml_language, etc.) are stripped from duplicated items automatically - Polylang — language meta keys (
_pll_synced_taxonomies,_pll_menu_language, etc.) are stripped from duplicated items automatically - Additional keys can be excluded via the
swmd_compat_excluded_meta_keysfilter
Developer Hooks
swift_menu_duplicator_new_menu_name— customise the default duplicate nameswmd_rest_permission— control REST API accessswmd_before_duplicate_item/swmd_after_duplicate_menu_item— fired around item duplicationswmd_after_import_menu— fired after a successful importswmd_item_meta_keys— control which meta keys are copiedswmd_compat_excluded_meta_keys— extend the multilingual meta exclusion listwp_update_nav_menu— triggers auto-snapshot before every menu save
Security
- All AJAX actions verified with nonces and
edit_theme_optionscapability checks - All output escaped; all input sanitized
- Database queries use
$wpdb->prepare()— no string concatenation - REST API permission is filterable but defaults to
edit_theme_options - WordPress Filesystem API used for all file read/write/delete operations
Requirements
- WordPress 6.0 or higher
- PHP 7.4 or higher
- User with
edit_theme_optionscapability
Screenshots
Duplicate Menu button in the menu editor footer.
Menu Manager page — sortable list of all menus with bulk actions.
Snapshot panel in the menu editor — browse, restore, and delete revisions.
JSON import form with URL find & replace and dry-run preview.
WP-CLI
duplicateandexportcommands in a terminal.

