Title: wp_get_nav_menu_items
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘wp_get_nav_menu_items’, array $items, object $menu, array $args )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#changelog)
 * [User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)

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Filters the navigation menu items being returned.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$items`array

An array of menu item post objects.

`$menu`object

The menu object.

`$args`array

An array of arguments used to retrieve menu item objects.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    return apply_filters( 'wp_get_nav_menu_items', $items, $menu, $args );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/nav-menu.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/nav-menu.php#L777)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/nav-menu.php#L777-L777)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [wp_get_nav_menu_items()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_get_nav_menu_items/)`wp-includes/nav-menu.php` |

Retrieves all menu items of a navigation menu.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.0.0/) | Introduced. |

## 󠀁[User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)󠁿

 1.  [Skip to note 2 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/?output_format=md#comment-content-6374)
 2.   [Dragi Postolovski](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dragipostolovski/)  [  3 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_get_nav_menu_items/#comment-6374)
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 4.     ```php
        function wpdocs_exclude_menu_items( $items ) {
            foreach ( $items as $key => $item ) {
                // If the menu item does not have the 'custom-item-class' class
                if ( ! in_array( 'custom-item-class', $item->classes ) ) {
                    continue;
                }
    
                unset( $items[ $key ] );
            }
    
            return $items;
        }
    
        add_filter( 'wp_get_nav_menu_items', 'wpdocs_exclude_menu_items' );
        ```
    
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