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

Swift Menu Duplicator