Is Max Mega Menu a remedy for wordpress dissolving menu items?

  • Resolved kmp2

    (@kmp2)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    Hello. My top menu shredded itself a couple of days ago, leaving behind 30 red-text notices: “The given object ID is not that of a menu item.” I’ve just looked into that “error” message, and it seems that wordpress has a built-in limitation that goes off unexpectedly like a time bomb and shreds the menu if it has more than 40 items.

    As you can see from my site — and I haven’t reconstructed the menu yet — I have easily had over 100 items on the top menu, and thought that was fine, and planned to add another 100 more. However, now it seems that wordpress is a ticking time bomb and can blow my menu to bits out of the blue.

    I spent a LONG time building that web site, the menu was the hardest part and now it has to be done over. A second time. Because it also blew up a few months ago at another host, the whole menu vanished, no explanation. Till now.

    So, either I build the site over again in a completely different system, if I can find one, or I try to make this one work.

    I LOVE my theme, I don’t want to alter the look of it, I want to keep it.

    Therefore, my questions are:

    1 – Does Max Mega Menu support unlimited menu items on the top menu, or does it blow up like regular wordpress?

    2 – If Max Mega Menu does support unlimited items on the top menu – in my case likely to be a bit over 200 all totalled when all the newsletters are embedded and posted — does it CHANGE the menu design and appearance, because I don’t want to change it.

    I just want stability for more than 40 top menu items.

    P.S. A few months ago when the menu shredded for the first time, the top menu entirely disappeared, and 3/4 of the footer menu also vanished. WordPress is a nightmare. Is there any solution? I’d really like to FINISH my work and have it stay that way, instead of doing it over and over and over and over…. Thanks for your time.

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  • Thread Starter kmp2

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    Let me answer my question myself. I found the answer at the Max Mega Menu web site (though I had to squint to read the pale grey font over there).

    https://www.megamenu.com/documentation/menu-item-limit/

    That page explains why there is a limit of about 90 items on a wordpress menu, and installing the max mega menu plugin won’t change that. The page goes on to kindly explain how to increase the limit by adding bits of code here and there. Thank you. I’ll try it after a good sleep.

    Especially since I’ve realized that I have another web site that I had better do it to, which also has a big menu that may explode any minute.

    Too bad someone doesn’t invent a plugin to fix this by auto-adding the necessary snippets.

    Thank you for the advice, though. Much appreciated. The lack of this information actually caused me to change web hosts a few months ago when the menu on the same site blew up the first time. Too bad web hosts won’t just tell the truth about it, might save them a loss of business, as it looks like they have poor servers, or vandalism, and the truth would spare you from moving out, and them from losing a customer.

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