November 22, 2023

Responsive Mobile Select Menu Plugin

The Responsive Mobile Select Menu plugin automatically turns any WordPress Menu into a select box / dropdown on mobile devices.

One common UI paradigm for navigation menus with responsive design is to display a select box (form element) for mobile devices.
This plugin allows you to turn your WordPress menu into a select box below a browser viewport width of your choice.

This is the successor plugin of former, unfortunately abandoned Responsive Select Menu by sevenspark.
It has been made translation-ready, PHP 8 ready and its code has been rewritten and restructured to work with WordPress versions greater than 5.x.x

Please find a live demo of the plugin here: https://responsive-select-menu.saskialund.de/

Features

Takes up less screen real estate on mobile devices
Easier navigation for touch screens
Works automatically – no need to add extra PHP code

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

Upload the plugin zip through your WordPress admin
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Navigate to Appearance > Responsive Menu to configure your new mobile select menu

Screenshots

Responsive mobile select menu on the iPhone/iPod Touch

FAQ

Do I have to have a “Navigate” item as my first item

You can change the name of this item, but it has to exist. Otherwise, you won’t be able to navigate to the first item in the menu
if you’re not using the “Show currently selected item” – even if you have that option enabled, the issue would still exist on pages not
in the menu.

It doesn’t work

If your theme creates a menu the standard way with wp_nav_menu(), it should work. If not, make sure you either post a support request in this plugin’s WordPress support forum or maybe approach your theme’s developer.

Changelog

1.1.3

readme update and versioning
Compatibility with WordPress 6.4.x

1.1.2

readme update and versioning
typo correction regarding compatibility with WordPress 6.3.1

1.1.1

readme update and versioning
Compatibility with PHP 8.0.x and 8.1.x

1.1.0

readme update and versioning
Compatibility with WordPress version 5.6.x and upcoming 5.7

1.0.5

readme update and versioning
Feature: added accessibility aria code (thanks @haefele for asking)
Compatibility with PHP 7.4

1.0.4

readme update and versioning

1.0.3

Fix: under certain circumstances settings weren’t saving – refactored

1.0.2

Fix: under certain circumstances settings weren’t saving.

1.0

Initial version
Forked from Responsive Select Menu Plugin 1.7 which is 4 years old and unfortunately abandoned by its developer 🙁
Added Translation Readyness
Added German formal and informal translation files
Compatibility with PHP 7.3
Bugfix due to PHP 7.3 debug_log warnings
Removed Ads and external hotlinked images from ControlPanel