No menu drag and drop in 3.4.1

@xymantec

That’s a very gracious offer. I should re-iterate, though, that I can’t replicate it myself on another machine. Banjaxed! What I have is:

Dell Desktop: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS, WAMP installation (Apache 2.2.17, PHP 5.3.4, MySQL 5.1.53). Three WP implementations: localhost is WP 3.4.2 and works perfectly; localhost/odonata is 3.4.1 and works; localhost/bnhs was vanilla WP 3.3 which allowed drag and drop menu definition, auto-upgrade to 3.4.2 broke it (now dragging just highlights text). I’ve trashed localhost/bnhs a couple of times and started from scratch – same deal, broken drag and drop.

Dell Laptop – same setup: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS, WAMP installation (Apache 2.2.17, PHP 5.3.4, MySQL 5.1.53). localhost is WP 3.3.1. localhost/wordpress33 started with vanilla WP 3.3, auto-upgrade to 3.4.2 and it does what it says on the tin – all works as expected. I’ve installed a couple of plugins (Contact Form 7, Fast Secure Contact Forms, Contact Form to Database extension) which is where I came in and that doesn’t break it. (I left these out of the re-installations on the desktop.)

The desktop installation is my development machine for a couple of sites I look after using WP, including my own. The laptop is a shadow for me to carry and reference when travelling.

This is so weird.

This has been going on in WordPress since at least 2.9 because everytime I have upgraded since I’ve been using WordPress (2.9) nothing short of an extremely fresh install with no mods or themes fixes it. Upgrading your installation causes this problem consistently. A google search of this problem will drag up posts from 3 years ago.

My problem is the same: I click a menu to drag/drop it and it won’t let go of my cursor. For menus this is a game-breaking issue because you can’t go into accessible mode like you’re able to do for widgets.

Any developers working on this at all? What’s the issue and what’s the fix?

Mine is a Chrome issue. I was able to drag and drop in Firefox but not in Chrome.

BTW: I tried many of the suggested ideas above.

Do you have any idea what the Chrome issue could be.

Cookies. Cache?

I’ll try,

I use Chrome, but tried to drag and drop in IE9 and it still wouldn’t work. And I’m not technically advanced enough to attempt a lot of these other more complex solutions. How frustrating! ??

I just tried to deactivate all of my plugins and it WORKED. Go figure that I would work on this for weeks, and then 10 minutes after I posted in here, I finally got it to work. When I started to reactivate things, it stopped working after I turned the “Simple Slideshow” back on. (https://www.daniellanger.com/blog/simple-slideshow/)

Not sure why it did it, but whatever – I was able to move my menu where I wanted it, so I’m happy.
Good luck, all.

Xymantec et al,

I’m running 3.4.2 and likewise cannot drag and drop menu items or widgets.

1) I disabled all plugins, and still no go.

2) I reset permissions for the wp-includes folder and all sub-folders, and all files within the wp-includes folder as recommended above. Still no go.

3) I changed my theme to one of the wordpress default themes, and still cannot drag/drop menu items or widgets.

Any further recommendations other than rolling back to a previous version of wordpress? Pulling my hair out over here…

Thank you,

Thanks, xymantec. Re-uploading wp-includes worked for me! ??