Purify WordPress Menus

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The plugin is available in English, Spanish (Español) and German (Deutsch). Less code, higher page speed This plugin deletes the CSS classes you do not need in a navigation menu and page menu. It slims down the HTML code of WordPress menus to the only neccessary CSS classes you want for your theme. This results in less HTML code and so in higher page speed. What users said Number 1 in Cool List of Free Navigation Menu WordPress Plugins by Inspiration on January 8, 2015 Number 7 in 13 Excellent Free WordPress Widgets for Menus by mike on November 24, 2014 Number 6 in 13 Great Free HTML Widgets for WordPress by sam on August 27, 2014 Number 8 in 10 Magnificent Free Menus Widgets for WordPress by jatin on July 26, 2014 No undesiderable visual effects The visual appereance of menus in the frontend remains unchanged in most cases. If you should see an undesirable visual effect to the menus in your theme you can activate the needed CSS classes on the plugin’s options page. Deactivate it and keep your settings If you deactivate the plugin, your settings remains. If you activate the plugin again your last settings will be used. You do not need to go over all settings again. Residue-free deletion If you delete the plugin via the WordPress ‘Plugin’ menu, your settings will be deleted, too. No useless option remains in the WordPress database. Default setting: Marks the current menu item only The default setting is to output only the CSS classes for the current menu item. Stops displaying CSS classes of parents and ancestors of menu items Menu items which are parents of the current item will not be classified as ancestors additionally. The output of class=”current-menu-ancestor current-menu-parent” is reduced to class=”current-menu-parent”. Stops displaying CSS classes of outdated page menus This plugin filters out the old CSS classes of page menus in navigation menus. Using the WordPress menu configurator the page menu classes are not necessary anymore. Stops displaying #menu-{id} This plugin deletes the ID attribute of each menu item. In most cases the ID of every menu item is not needed. Uses WordPress standard functions This plugin hooks into the WordPress core functions wp_nav_menu() and wp_page_menu(). It changed the results of both functions to the settings you chose. Switch on and off every CSS menu item class You can: select and deselect in detail every CSS menu item class the WordPress core functions wp_nav_menu() and wp_page_menu() generate control whether the id attribute of each navigation menu item is printed out or not control whether parent items will be additionally classified as ancestors item or not. You can activate to print out both classes on parent items or just parents classes control whether navigation menus will be additionally classified with the older page menu classes for compatibility or not. Languages The user interface is available in English Spanish (Español), kindly drawn up by Hector Cabrera German (Deutsch) Further translations are welcome. If you want to give in your translation please leave a notice in the plugin’s support forum.