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:

Feature	FreeNav	Other Plugins
Price	Free	$19
Conditional Visibility	Per-node rules (user group, login state, URL, entry type)	None
Built-in Cache	Tagged cache with auto-invalidation	None
Icon & Badge Fields	Native on every node	None
Template Presets	6 presets (dropdown, sidebar, breadcrumb, footer, mega)	None
JSON Import/Export	Full menu structure portability	None
ARIA Accessibility	Automatic `aria-current`, `aria-expanded`, `role`	Manual
REST API	3 built-in endpoints	None
Mega Menu Columns	First-class column layout	None

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+

FreeNav

Standard