API for wp menu hacks

Question changed due to new developments!

I was loooking for a way to hack the menu items in the custom menu page to add a “hide” checkbox and other options. The only way I found is to override the Walker_Nav_Menu class.

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I think it’s a quite tricky solution…

In the wp_nav_menu codex anyway i found many examples with filters and action to hack custom menus. Nevertheless I haven’t found any documentation about these hacks.

Another idea I had is to treat menu items as custom post (they are actually), so i was wondering if the custom field api could be helpful for my purposes.

Any suggestions?

OLD QUESTION:

There is one big but simple feature that is missing from WP and I really can’t understand why!!!

There isn’t any way to just hide front end menu items without deleting them completely!

If for example I have a complex menu with many items and submenus and i want to hide it for a while, it’s not possibile to do it! Just a checkbox with a display option would be enough.

It’s me missing something?

If it’s really missing, is there an API to modify the Appearance>menu section to add more capabilities?

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