Nice Navigation
This plugin adds a widget that makes your page list expandable/collapsible with a nice slide animation effect.
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Nice Navigation shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 200+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 14 years ago, and scores 33/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (200+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 14 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 3.4 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
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Rankings
Where Nice Navigation stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| cms | >100 |
| page | >100 |
| pages | >100 |
| tree | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 2 reviews
About Nice Navigation
From the official readme · v1.6Description
This plugin adds a widget that makes your page list expandable/collapsible with a nice slide animation effect.
Nice Navigation Features and highlights:
- Simple and nice collapsible/expandable menu with your pages
- Better overview over your pages
- Instantly navigate to sub-pages
- Uses jQuery for a nice animation effect (hence the name)
- Users with JavaScript disabled will se a regular menu
- No downsides for SEO/Google, all pages still browsable by search engines
- All arguments/options available for wp_list_pages is available for this plugin/widget.
- Styles can be overridden with your own custom CSS
- Looks cool! 😉
Donation and more plugins
- If you like this plugin don’t forget to donate to support further development.
- Check out some more WordPress CMS plugins by the same author.
Installation
- Upload the folder “nice-navigation” to “/wp-content/plugins/”
- Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
- Go to Appearance > Widgets and you will find the Nice Navigation there
Changelog
1.6
- …and another small fix. I suck at this!
1.5
- Fixed bug that caused the widget to not work in all themes. Should work in all/most themes now.
1.4
- Fixed a PHP short tag.
1.3
- Works a lot faster with sites with many pages. Hooray!
- Added option to make a click a the parent link expand the tree and not follow the link
- Does not load CSS or scripts in admin
- Small fix to CSS to make selected post bold
- Hopefully loads scripts and styles via https if that’s being used on the site
1.2
- wp_enqueue_style uses media screen. Hopefully this works better with gzip/minifiy-plugins. Thanks to http://twitter.com/JohannesHoppe/ for mentioning this.
1.1
- Plugin now available on wordpress.org
- Moved JavaScript and CSS to external files
- Arrows now have transparent backgrounds
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FAQ
Nice Navigation: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 2, 2026
Is Nice Navigation free?
Yes. Nice Navigation is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Nice Navigation safe to use in 2026?
Nice Navigation shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 200+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 14 years ago, and scores 33/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Nice Navigation?
Nice Navigation is active on 200+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 24,237 times since it launched in July 2010. It was downloaded 76 times in the last 30 days.
Does Nice Navigation work with WordPress 7.1?
Nice Navigation is officially tested up to WordPress 3.4.2, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Nice Navigation last updated?
The latest version, 1.6, was released on August 16, 2012 (14 years ago).
Who makes Nice Navigation?
Nice Navigation is developed and maintained by Pär Thernström.
What are the best alternatives to Nice Navigation?
The most popular alternatives to Nice Navigation are White Label CMS (200K+ installs), List category posts (80K+ installs) and Cornerstone (20K+ installs).
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