Title: wp_update_nav_menu
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# do_action( ‘wp_update_nav_menu’, int $menu_id, array $menu_data )

## In this article

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

[ Back to top](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_update_nav_menu/?output_format=md#wp--skip-link--target)

Fires after a navigation menu has been successfully updated.

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

 `$menu_id`int

ID of the updated menu.

`$menu_data`array

An array of menu data.

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

    ```php
    do_action( 'wp_update_nav_menu', $menu_id, $menu_data );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/nav-menu.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/nav-menu.php#L402)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/nav-menu.php#L402-L402)

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

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_REST_Menus_Controller::handle_auto_add()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_rest_menus_controller/handle_auto_add/)`wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-menus-controller.php` |

Updates the menu’s auto add from a REST request.

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| [wp_nav_menu_update_menu_items()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_nav_menu_update_menu_items/)`wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php` |

Saves nav menu items.

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

Saves the properties of a menu or create a new menu with those properties.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_update_nav_menu/?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_update_nav_menu/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)󠁿

 1.  [Skip to note 2 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_update_nav_menu/?output_format=md#comment-content-6791)
 2.   [Nitish Kaila](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kailanitish90/)  [  2 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_update_nav_menu/#comment-6791)
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 4. If you are using 2 arguments for this action, in the callback function second argument
    needs a default empty array. If the second argument does not have a default array
    then it will throw the fatal error.
 5.     ```php
        function wpdocs_update_menu_stuff_after_update( $menu_id, $menu_data = array() ) {
        	//add menu stuff
        }
        add_action( 'wp_update_nav_menu', 'wpdocs_update_menu_stuff_after_update', 10, 2 );
        ```
    
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