# WordPress 5.4 and our new plugin using WP menu custom fields API released

*Published:* 2020-04-03
*Author:* Rahul Bansal

> Our brand new plugin uses two new hooks in WordPress 5.4 to achieve Mega Menu functionality

![custom-fields@2x](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/custom-fields@2x.png?resize=720%2C417&quality=100&strip=all)[WordPress 5.4 is here](https://wordpress.org/news/2020/03/adderley/) with new features, optimizations and of course, Gutenberg blocks. Our kudos to [Abhijit](https://profiles.wordpress.org/abhijitrakas/) for his contribution to WP 5.4 🎉

This is WordPress’ 38th major release, which means that rtCampers have now contributed to *half of all major releases*.

Among the additions to WordPress 5.4 are [two new hooks](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/02/25/wordpress-5-4-introduces-new-hooks-to-add-custom-fields-to-menu-items/) that let developers add custom fields to menu items. We used this new capability in one of our under-development projects to achieve what we call Mega Menu functionality🤘

In other words, users are able to add images, shortcodes or custom HTML markup to WordPress menu items right from the core menu management interface under “Appearance -> Menus”.

Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re releasing this functionality as a standalone WordPress plugin called [WP Menu Custom Fields](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-menu-custom-fields/). Have a look:

![custom-field-interface](https://rtcamp.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/custom-field-interface.gif?resize=720%2C354&quality=100&strip=all)WP Menu Custom Fields interface demo.While WordPress plugins to accomplish similar functionality already exist, we found them to be too bloated for our specific needs. We’d rather build something quick & easy than spend a bunch of time code-reviewing 🤷‍♂️

Also, we would have ideally liked to use Gutenberg’s upcoming [navigation feature](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/projects/31), but the one that shipped with 7.0 wasn’t adequate for our needs.

Go take a look at [WP Menu Custom Fields ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-menu-custom-fields/)in the WordPress.org plugin repo and tell us what you think!

**Links:** [WordPress 5.4 Release Post](https://wordpress.org/news/2020/03/adderley/) | [Download WP Menu Custom Fields Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-menu-custom-fields/)

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