FreeNav

A free, full-featured navigation menu builder for Craft CMS 5. Build complex navigation menus with a drag-and-drop interface, conditional visibility, caching, accessibility, and more, all without paying a dime.

Why FreeNav?

FreeNav provides everything you need to manage navigation in Craft CMS, for free:

Features

• Menu Builder — Drag-and-drop node builder in the Control Panel
• Multiple Node Types — Entry, category, asset, Commerce product, custom URL, passive (no-link), and site nodes
• Conditional Visibility — Show/hide nodes based on user group, logged-in state, URL segments, or entry type
• Built-in Cache — Intelligent per-menu cache with automatic invalidation via tagged dependencies
• Icon & Badge Support — Native icon class and badge text fields on every node
• Template Presets — 6 ready-to-use render presets: default, dropdown, sidebar, breadcrumb, footer, mega menu
• JSON Import/Export — Export and import full menu structures with element UID portability
• ARIA Accessibility — Built-in accessible markup with aria-current, aria-expanded, aria-haspopup, and role attributes
• REST API — Simple REST endpoints for headless/decoupled architectures
• GraphQL — Full schema with per-menu types and scoped permissions
• Multi-site — Configurable propagation methods (none, site group, language, all)
• Breadcrumbs — URL-segment breadcrumb generation with automatic Craft element resolution
• Project Config — Menu definitions stored in Project Config for environment portability
• Permissions — Granular user permissions (manage menus, edit nodes, delete nodes — per-menu)
• Element Syncing — Node titles and URLs auto-update when linked entries/categories change
• Menu Field Type — Drop a menu selector into any entry type
• Extensible — Event hooks for custom node types, visibility rules, active state overrides, and render modification

Requirements

• Craft CMS 5.0.0+
• PHP 8.2+