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Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus
Easy menu styling that occasionally requires custom CSS for your SVGs.
Healthy
91/100
The plugin provides a simple and reliable way to add icons to navigation menus.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.9★
845 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-2%
Holding steady
840 → 827 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -2% in the last year
840/day a year ago→827/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMenu Icons by Themeisle is well-regarded as a simple, reliable plugin for adding icons to WordPress navigation menus, with the main caveat being limited flexibility for custom SVG icons, particularly around hover color control.
What people like
- +Easy to use and straightforward to set up×7
- +Works reliably without issues over long-term use×4
Common complaints
- −Custom SVG icons cannot have their color changed on hover via the plugin; a CSS workaround is required
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.80★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 845 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-04★★★★★AWESOMEDavid Barczak
- 2026-04-06★★★★★Excellent pluginlyyuba
- 2026-03-30★★★★★Excellentjtatayb
- 2026-03-30★★★★★Does what it says!uncouthmike
- 2026-03-01★★★★★Good features!Rico
- 2026-01-28★★★★★Perfectdanimoe
- 2026-01-12★★★★★Perfectgdrjm
- 2025-11-21★★★★★GutKlaus Kullmann
- 2025-09-01★★★★★Good but need new icon set and custom icon to upload as a ziplucaswpgdigital
- 2025-08-30★★★★★Works as intendedislamragab
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
715
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
673
Prior 7-day baseline
537
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
2,772
Mean release-day peak (30d)
715
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+6.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.91
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
91%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
0%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.82 → 4.80★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered