WP Mega Menu plugin review: how to create a beautiful mega menu

Mega Menu is still a trend in website design today. Surely you have seen this menu form when browsing many websites.

And you still don’t know what a mega menu is, here’s the concept:

Mega Menu is defined as a drop-down interface when the user hovers over a specific link or area. This drop-down interface will display all options in one main panel. Usually the options are grouped by relevant topic into categories.

Still vague about the menu maga. You can immediately see the demo of the WP Mega Menu plugin that I mentioned in today’s review.

Currently, I see many themes that have packed the mega menu feature right in the theme, such as ThemeJunkie ‘s theme . But the Mega Menu feature of Theme Junkie is quite monotonous, far from the dedicated plugin WP Mega Menu.

Of course, if your theme doesn’t support this feature, the WP Mega Menu plugin will help you turn your menu into a mega menu.

Why you need to use Mega Menu

Mega Menu helps your website become more attractive in the eyes of users. It increases your wesbite user experience.

Do you feel that your menu is too monotonous and tedious for users?

Mega Menu will bring new life to the menu area. Users may say ‘Wow’ when they see your menu.

Moreover, you can display the content they need in an attractive form.

Another plus point of the mega menu is that it promotes SEO for the website. By building internal links in the mega menu, your blog will have a better chance of ranking in search results.

Mega Menu is essential if your website has a lot of content and complex organization with many parent and child categories. Now Mega Menu will help users easily find the content they are looking for.

Why should you choose WP Mega Menu?

WP Mega Menu will turn your menu into a mega menu with a beautiful interface. The plugin itself is very easy to use. It offers a lot of options for you to customize almost anything.

Let’s take a look at the outstanding features inside the WP Mega Menu plugin to see the magic it can bring to your website menu.

Many layouts for you to choose

WP Mega Menu offers you 3 layouts. From the layouts you can customize to create as many styles as you want.

A few styles you can create:

Style 1

Style 2

Style 3

Style 4

Below are 3 basic layouts for you to create the above styles

Show posts

Layout allows you to display articles for categories. With this type of layout you can also choose what post meta information you want to display. The post meta information here includes the avatar image, the author’s name, the date, the excerpt (expert) of the post.

Show Posts & subcateogries

This layout will display the list of subcategory on the left and the list of articles for the corresponding subcategory on the right. Similar to the layout above you can choose the post meta you want to display.

Show subcategories:

The right display style for you to display categories by group

Easily change the color and background image

Want to personalize the color and background image of your mega menu?

Too simple for this plugin. ​

You will see an option that allows you to change the color of the mega menu. You can even choose a background image if you want.

Many eye-catching mega menu animations

Are you a fan of the animation effects in the website?

The good news is:

The plugin has many animation effects for the mega menu. Surely this feature will be the key factor to make the menu more attractive to users. ​

Specifically, the plugin gives you many effects when the menu appears and hides.

Huge font icon store makes the menu more eye-catching

You’ve seen icons appear on menu labels on many other websites. And you also want your website menu to have the same feature. 

As bonus:

The plugin provides a huge stock of icon fonts for you to choose from. Need specific numbers? 439 icon fonts are divided into different groups as shown below 

A few other valuable features

Besides the above features, the plugin has many other notable features:

Pricing and Support

Like other MyThemeShop plugins, WP Mega Menu has a promotional price of $27 ($12 off list price). You’ll see this price when you sign up for a free account.

Is there a site limit to install?

This plugin allows you to install unlimited websites. 

How to use the WP Mega Menu plugin

WP Mega Menu has a great interface and features, doesn’t it? Now let’s see how to use the plugin. You will find it very easy to use.

First you install and activate the plugin.

As soon as the plugin is activated, you do not need to do any configuration.

You go to the WordPress menu creation section. The plugin’s features are already built into it. You can create mega menus for pages and categories.

Click on a category you want to create a mega menu for. Check the Enable Mega Menu option. You will now see all the plugin options.

Now let’s try to create a mega menu in the style 1 of the demo site.

First you open the mega menu option for the category. Here you choose the layout. With style 1 we will choose layout 1.

After choosing layout, you switch to select post meta, we will show all post meta.

Next, we will choose the color and background image. Here you choose the color scheme or background you like. In this example, we choose dark for the color scheme.

Finally we add some effects to the mega menu.

Remember to click the Save button to save the configuration.

We go to the front end interface to check again. And this is the result after a few minutes of experience with the plugin

Epilogue

Overall, I love the look of the mega menu that this plugin creates. Especially the plugin has a lot of layout options to make the menu area more attractive. 

A feature not to be missed is that the plugin offers a lot of built-in icons. With this plugin, it is not difficult for you to have a mega menu with a beautiful and attractive interface.

What about the plugin’s effect on website speed ?

I understand your worries when considering using a certain plugin.

No need to worry too much. This plugin is very lightweight. It has a fast loading speed so it definitely does not affect the performance of the website. 

Refurbished the menu area without affecting website speed. Sounds delicious, right?

Really:​

If you are in need of a plugin to create Mega Menu, WP Mega Menu should be the first plugin on your list of choices.

Have you used any mega menu creation plugin? Please share your experience below?​