Swift Menu Duplicator

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_name to 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; the pre-restore state is snapshotted first

• 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

Deletion Safety

• Deleting a menu — from the Menu Manager, the row action, or the Delete Menu button in the editor — captures it first

• An Undo link appears while the deletion is still recoverable (one hour by default, filterable)

• Restoring recreates the menu and its items and puts it back in the theme locations it occupied

Block Themes

• Duplicate, export, and import the Navigation menus block themes actually render ( wp_navigation posts), not just classic menus

• A dedicated Navigation (Block) tab in the Menu Manager, with per-row Duplicate and Export JSON plus bulk duplicate and trash

• Link counts per menu, and one-click access to the Site Editor

• Available from WP-CLI and the REST API alongside the classic-menu commands

Multisite Support

• Copy any menu to another site in your WordPress Multisite network

• Optional URL find & replace applied to item URLs on the destination site

REST API

Full REST API at /wp-json/swift-menu-duplicator/v1/ for headless and block-editor integrations:

• POST /menus/{id}/duplicate — duplicate a menu (optional name parameter)

• GET /menus/{id}/export — export a menu as a JSON payload

• POST /menus/{id}/items/{item_id}/duplicate — duplicate a single menu item

• POST /menus/import — import a menu from an export payload

• GET /menus/{id}/snapshots — list snapshots

• POST /menus/{id}/snapshots — save a snapshot

• POST /menus/{id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id} — restore a snapshot

• DELETE /menus/{id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id} — delete a snapshot

• GET /navigations — list block navigation menus

• POST /navigations/{id}/duplicate — duplicate a block navigation menu

• GET /navigations/{id}/export — export a block navigation menu

• POST /navigations/import — import a block navigation menu

Permission is controlled by the swift_menu_duplicator_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 menu

• wp swift-menu-duplicator export <menu-id> [--output=<file>] — export to JSON

• wp swift-menu-duplicator import <file> [--name=<name>] [--find=<str>] [--replace=<str>] [--dry-run] [--porcelain] — import from JSON

• wp swift-menu-duplicator copy-to-site <menu-id> --target-blog=<id> [--name=<name>] [--find=<str>] [--replace=<str>] — copy to a sub-site

• wp swift-menu-duplicator snapshot list|save|restore|delete <menu-id> [--label=<label>] [--id=<uuid>] — manage snapshots

• wp swift-menu-duplicator navigation list|duplicate|export|import [<id-or-file>] [--title=<title>] [--output=<file>] — block navigation menus

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 swift_menu_duplicator_compat_excluded_meta_keys filter

Developer Hooks

• swift_menu_duplicator_new_menu_name — customise the default duplicate name

• swift_menu_duplicator_rest_permission — control REST API access

• swift_menu_duplicator_before_duplicate_item / swift_menu_duplicator_after_duplicate_menu_item — fired around item duplication

• swift_menu_duplicator_after_import_menu — fired after a successful import

• swift_menu_duplicator_before_restore_snapshot / swift_menu_duplicator_after_restore_snapshot — fired around a snapshot restore

• swift_menu_duplicator_after_undo_delete — fired after a deleted menu is restored

• swift_menu_duplicator_undo_ttl / swift_menu_duplicator_undo_limit — how long deletions stay recoverable, and how many are kept

• swift_menu_duplicator_item_meta_keys — control which meta keys are copied

• swift_menu_duplicator_compat_excluded_meta_keys — extend the multilingual meta exclusion list

• wp_update_nav_menu — triggers auto-snapshot before every menu save

Security

• All AJAX actions verified with nonces and edit_theme_options capability 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_options capability