Unable to edit or save Navigation Menus since WP 6.0

  • Resolved flipty

    (@flipty)


    2 years, 9 months ago

    I can’t believe I’m the only developer having this issue, but I can’t seem to find anyone else asking the question:

    On any of the dozens of sites/custom themes I have developed in the last 5 years of being a WP dev, if I upgrade to WP 6.0 I can no longer edit anything having to do with the Navigation (Menu) system.

    Converting dozens of extremely customized themes/sites over to Full Site Editing is absolutely not going to happen for many reasons… Mostly because there’s no way any of my clients are going to pay for that amount of work, nor do I have time to do that amount of work, and as well most of my themes have tons of specialized functionality and needs.

    In a nutshell: I do not want to use the Full Site Editor for the vast majority of the sites I have developed. Am I permanently marooned on WP 5.9.3?

    Please tell me there’s an easy way around this without risking the security and stability of dozens of custom sites.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by t-p. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress from Developing with WordPress

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  • What version of php is running on the server?

    Thread Starter flipty

    (@flipty)

    I am seeing the same issue on all sites running WP6.0, locally I am running MAMP with PHP 7.3.29 and on WPEngine I’m running into the same issue with PHP 7.4 or PHP 8.

    I should add, if I try to directly go to the nav editing URL I get the error message “Your theme does not support navigation menus or widgets.”

    Sorry about the delayed response, the notification got caught in my spam folder.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by flipty.
    Thread Starter flipty

    (@flipty)

    UPDATE: I noticed that a few of the sites I have worked on seemed to be able (in WP 6.0.2) to work as normal after the 6.0 update. What I was doing was forcing navigation to function as it used to by adding the register_nav_menus() function to my functions.php:

    register_nav_menus(array(
  'menu-1' => esc_html__('Primary', 'text-domain')
));
    Thread Starter flipty

    (@flipty)

    BTW this effectively solves the issue for me so I am marking it solved.

    Hi Flipty

    I’ve the same problem. In which part do you place your code in functions.php ?

    Thank’s for your answer

    I have the same problem, i cannot save my menu since i have wordpress 6.2

    Anyone knows where this code needs to be located? I cannot believe that a big issue like this is not solved by wordpress, and depends on reading some blog… My sites, are multisites ones.

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