Menu keeps diseapearing

[Brandon68]

I have question when im using the genisis with wordpress and i have recently created 3 menus with atlease 150 pages and when i go to add another menu and save it. the menu page refreshes and that page is gone. Also when i go back to my home page i have to physically go into my background and readd the nav bar everytime is their a way i can make it so it doesnt keep diseappearing? and also is their a way that i can add more pages to my menus and they still be their after i save them

http://www.curryhhi.com

[Ben @ Inbound Creative]

There is a hard limit of 90 items that can added to a WordPress menu. This is a limitation within WordPress and has nothing to do with Genesis.

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[Tom]

There are also ways around the limitation. SevenSpark describes a very technical analysis and solution.

SevenSpark are also the makers of the UberMenu plugin, which bypassed this limit for me without a hitch. The menus from the GenesisThemes.ca site in my sig run close to 200 menu items. I suspect that this is because the menus are never actually saved in WordPress, but are dynamically generated by the plugin for each page view from content across the site. (I never have to maintain a menu item.) This still presents a problem of slowing page load times simply because each page includes ~200 menu items, but I'm considering measuring this and refactoring/redesigning to reduce potential impacts.

A similar method to dynamically generate menus of hierarchical items (page, category, or any hierarchical custom post type or taxonomy) is to use the plugin Add Descendants As Submenu Items, which also builds the WP menu dynamically. I don't know for certain that it bypasses the WP menu item limit but suspect that it does so. This might work for Brandon if the page and/or taxonomy hierarchies are well-planned. This also reduces or eliminates menu maintenance. The plugin has not been updated lately, but does work with WP4.1. https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-descendants-as-submenu-items/

However, I would suggest for @BRandon68 that with 150+ menu items a better solution would be to redesign & reorganize the content and presentation to reduce the number of menu items. For example, categorize to reduce the number of actual menu items, with summary pages describing, listing and leading to the complete arrays of offerings and potentially to specific products - help the reader or prospect find the information instead of making them read lists of 150 items.

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[Brandon68]

They all in categorized folders that way the consumer can choice which product that they would like to purchase. it's really just the matter of implamenting my contact info and such.

[Tom]

The current site looks quite complete and polished. http://www.curryprintinghhi.com/

What improvements are you looking for from your redesign?

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[Brandon68]

That is the site im current site, that the company is using and http://www.curryhhi.com is the site that im currently working on designing. The hosting at. http://www.curryprintinghhi.com doesnt allow me to have full rights of the site compared to the curryhhi.com i can make the changes as i see fit.

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