Title: Menu Based Sidebar
Author: WP-EXPERTS.IN
Published: <strong>August 8, 2022</strong>
Last modified: April 2, 2026

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# Menu Based Sidebar

 By [WP-EXPERTS.IN](https://profiles.wordpress.org/india-web-developer/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/menu-based-sidebar.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/menu-based-sidebar/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/menu-based-sidebar/#developers)

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## Description

A smart way to display child menu items in the widget sidebar. The Menu-Based Sidebar
plugin provides an option to display child menu items in the sidebar based on the
currently selected parent menu item.

#### Features

 * Shortcode [mbs_menu menu_id=”MENU_ID_GOES_HERE”]
  * Display menu items in sidebar
on based current main menu item  * Auto display child pages on based of current 
main menu item

#### Note: If you are using any cache plugin on your website then please clear site cache after enable/update plugin settings

Please don’t forget to leave your valuable feedback and suggestions to make our 
plugin much better compared to other plugins.

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## Installation

Installing the plugin:

 1.  Unzip the plugin’s directory into `wp-content/plugins`.
 2.  Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

## FAQ

### Is this allowing to display child menu items in sidebar ?

 * Yes, on basis of current main menu item, it will automatically display their 
all child menu items in sidebar
  

### Can I add sidebar under page content ?

 * Yes, You can use shortcode any where of the website where you want to display
menu based listing
  

### Can I show my footer menu items in sidebar?

 * Yes,Using the shortcode you can display listing of any menu, just need to add
the menu id in shortcode [mbs_menu menu_id=”MENU_ID_GOES_HERE”]

 

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Menu Based Sidebar” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ WP-EXPERTS.IN ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/india-web-developer/)
 *   [ WP-EXPERTS.IN ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpexpertsin/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/menu-based-sidebar/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/menu-based-sidebar/),
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## Changelog

#### 1.7

Tested with latest version of Wordrpess

#### 1.1

Fixed sub child menu items issue

#### 1.0

First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.8.4**
 *  Last updated **1 day ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 8.0 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-based-sidebar/)
 * Tags
 * [dynamic menu](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dynamic-menu/)[Navigation Menu](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/navigation-menu/)
   [sidebar widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar-widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/menu-based-sidebar/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ WP-EXPERTS.IN ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/india-web-developer/)
 *   [ WP-EXPERTS.IN ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpexpertsin/)

## Support

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