Menu functionality impaired

  • I recently installed 6.0.1, along with a theme (Quadrat white) and two plugins (powerpress and RSS aggregator), and I noticed that my navigation menu was missing from the site, as well as the administrative ability to interact with the menus/nav. To troubleshoot, I switched themes (to Twenty Twenty-Two) and can see the top nav menu in alternate themes, but still can’t administer menus. I can get to the administrative view of menus in Quadrat by going into the theme editor, selecting the main nav menu and ‘edit’. That would put me back out into the area where I can create a new menu, but creating (or editing an existing) menu left me with a menu name but a blank page that has no content.

    This is just proof of concept for an existing podcast so it isn’t commercially live. I’m just making sure I can get the environment tuned to work like I need it before I suggest we change platforms. I’m hoping someone can give me a kick on what to troubleshoot.

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

  • I recently installed 6.0.1, along with a theme (Quadrat white) and two plugins (powerpress and RSS aggregator), and I noticed that my navigation menu was missing from the site, as well as the administrative ability to interact with the menus/nav

    Quadrat is a child theme of Blockbase, which is a block theme. So what you’re seeing is the expected behavior, the way block themes are designed to work. They are a completely different beast (compared with traditional themes), and the new direction WordPress is going.

    If really you want to use this or any other block or FSE theme, you’ll save yourself a lot of frustration if you invest a little time to learn about the all-new full-site editing experience and working with block themes.

    Or simply use any of the thousands of the old and familiar traditional themes, so there’s no “shock” ??

    The following three videos from WordPress.com provide a good introduction.

    Thread Starter cbcadm1n

    (@cbcadm1n)

    Thanks for the reply George. I appreciate your attempt to get me on track.

    It

      is

    my first time dealing in the blocks, but it feels familiar – other than the impairment to the menus. Is there a video/tutorial that explains menu and nav in the new block format? For instance – why the menus in the 2022 template but no ability to manage them in admin? Does the block functionality completely deprecate the need for site navigation?

    I am not a WP expert… but I’ve had several WP site over the years and have been using modular design concepts for some time. I am open to the idea that I am missing something in this case, but I still have as my base case that something is broken with my navigation.

    Does the block functionality completely deprecate the need for site navigation?

    No, it doesn’t deprecate site navigation. It simply deprecates the way site navigation is created and managed.

    In a similar way, the new WordPress functionality does not deprecate widgets. But the way we manage widgets is completely different: now blocks are used. Oh, and, you know already the new WordPress doesn’t deprecate creating posts and pages: but the way we create posts and pages is totally different now: we now use the block editor (aka Gutenberg), instead of the “classic” editor.

    The new way to manage navigation in a Block/FSE theme is to insert a NAVIGATION BLOCK in the “Site Editor”, just as you insert a paragraph, headline, or any other block. After inserting a navigation lock, you can then add your individual navigation items inside the navigation block.

    You do this in APPEARANCE => EDITOR (Beta), and select the appropriate "Template Part" (depending on the Block/FSE theme you’re using). This opens the “Site Editor”, which is similar to the same Block Editor (aka Gutenberg) used to create posts/pages.

    Existing navigation created the OLD way can still used, after inserting the “Navigation Block”, you need to select a “Classic Menu” to use. And you can’t manage the “Classic Menu” in the new Site Editor screen at all.

    These features are new and unfamiliar, non-intuitive, very different from the way we’ve always used WordPress, and they’re changing with every WordPress release.

    That’s why I highly recommend you invest a little time to learn about how block/FSE themes work (if you want to use these themes!): to save yourself time and frustration in the long run. I certainly attended all the three webinars listed above live, and I continue to learn about the new direction WordPress is going every single day.

    Good luck!

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by George Appiah. Reason: Corrected typos

    I am having this same problem, and I am assuming that the WordPress core team have abandoned the “classic” way of creating and editing menus.

    For the time being, on themes that I created, I am making a custom ACF menu function that replicates the Classic Menu. I can’t wait around in hopes that the WP Core will change and finally allow my customers to edit their menus.

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • The topic ‘Menu functionality impaired’ is closed to new replies.