Giuliomax Menu Builder

Description

Giuliomax Menu Builder lets you create fully customized navigation menus and embed them anywhere using the [menux] shortcode. Build your menu visually from the WordPress admin, style it with colors and typography, and it works perfectly on desktop, tablet and mobile.

✨ Main Features

• Visual menu builder — drag-and-drop interface to add pages, custom links, icons, badges, notification dots and submenus up to 3 levels
• 20 Pre-built Templates — Choose from over 20 ready-to-use themes and use them with a single click
• Page + custom link support — use existing WP pages or external URLs, with target controls and role visibility
• Advanced item targeting — show/hide items by user role, login state, device, current page, schedule, time range or UTM source
• Menu location assignment — tag items for Primary, Footer, Sidebar or Mobile and render with [menux location="..."]
• Responsive mobile menu — automatic fit-based breakpoint or manual pixel threshold
• 4 mobile opening modes — Dropdown, Fullscreen overlay, Drawer left, Drawer right
• Hamburger style controls — classic, modern or minimal icon appearance, alignment and colors
• Sticky header — fixed menu on scroll with background, shadow, alignment, shrink and auto-hide behavior
• Scroll progress bar — page reading indicator that works on sticky or normal menus
• Dark mode support — Light, Dark or Auto (follows OS preference)
• Typography & layout — Google Fonts, fallback font, size, weight, spacing and text transform
• Link animations — hover effects like Lift, Scale, Pulse, Bounce, Shake, Glow and Underline
• Entrance animations — Fade, Slide, Zoom, Flip with duration, delay and stagger controls
• Import / Export — save and restore menu configurations as JSON
• Multilingual ready — WPML, Polylang and TranslatePress support with language-specific item labels
• Live preview — desktop/tablet/mobile preview while building the menu

🎨 Style Options

• Colors: background, links, hover, active state, submenus, last item
• Typography: Google Fonts, font family, size, weight, letter spacing, text transform
• Layout: gap, padding, item alignment, push-last-right
• Mobile: breakpoint, overlay color and opacity, blur, drawer width, open animation

🔌 Usage

1. Go to Giuliomax Menu Builder in the WordPress admin sidebar
2. Build your menu items
3. Configure colors and style
4. Place [menux] in any page, post, widget or template

🚀 Pro Version

The Pro version adds:

• 📊 Click statistics — track which items users click, by device, role and date
• 🖼️ Logo — add and position a logo image inside the menu
• 🔍 Search bar — instant full-text search modal with keyboard navigation
• ♿ Accessibility panel — WCAG 2.1 tools (focus outline, skip link, reduced motion, high contrast, ARIA labels)
• 🌈 Gradients — CSS gradient backgrounds for container, hover and active states
• 🎨 Custom CSS — write your own CSS rules directly from the admin panel
• 📄 Multiple menus — create and manage independent menu configurations for different pages or locations

External Services

This plugin may connect to the following external service:

Google Fonts (optional)

If a Google Font name is entered in the Style panel (Typography tab), the plugin loads that font’s stylesheet from Google’s servers at https://fonts.googleapis.com. This request is made only when a Google Font is explicitly configured by the site administrator. The font name and the visitor’s IP address are sent to Google as part of the standard HTTP request.

• Terms of service: https://developers.google.com/terms
• Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Font Awesome icons are bundled locally within the plugin and do not load from any external server.