[Resolved] Menu newbie questions

[mapsarska]

Dears

I encounter a problem with my company page and since i am a WP neewbie.
I am not sure if i do something wrong or if it is a problem of WordPress itself or maybe GP.

Please check my site adlerpneumatyka.pl

My company is a trading company, and now i am wasting lot of time on adding products from our offer.
I add them as separate pages and place them in menu “Nasza Oferta” in dropdown menu, loose lot of time on moving them to certain place in the offer cathegories. I tried to add it as posts but it is not exactly showing how i like it to show.

My company previous site was running on joomla it is looking like this mar.sklep.pl

Anyway my problem is that every time i make few new pages and then i add them to menu through WP/Personalisation/Menu something wrong happen and a big portion of the links dissapear.
I have to fix all and add again, ussually it helps when i add them in Personalization/Menu Plus.

What am i doing wrong Guys and Gals? Please help me or i will loose the rest of hair i have (not many left thou…) I still have to add couple hundereds positions as pages and in the menu.

All help i can get from you is priceless to me…

[Tom]

Hi there,

So when you add new menu items – other menu items disappear?

If so, this might help: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-custom-menu-items-limit-in-wordpress/

Let me know 🙂

[mapsarska]

Yes great i managed to add php.ini in my wp-admin and i think its working.
I was trying also to find this file in my phpMyAdmin but cannot find it…

[bdbrown]

phpMyAdmin is the interface for MySQL database management. You won’t find php.ini there.

[Tom]

Glad it’s working! 🙂

[mapsarska]

Yep so far all ok thanks for help

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

[mapsarska]

I am sorry but my problem is still occuring, durring the attempt of using Polylang plugin again something strange happen with my menu.

Now on my page i see a menu which is not the menu i see when i go to apperance/menu in settings 🙁

I turned-off the polylang plugin but that didnt helped.

In setting/ap[earance/menu i dont see a complete menu (imo like it should be scrolled down but there is no scrollbar). But when i oppen my page in browser menu look like it was some older version of my menu, custom links and forum links dissapeared from menu…

I dont know how to fix it. I must reorganize all pages in correct way in menu again?
currenty i have maybe 50 pages in menu that is less than 1/5 of what i still have to place there…

[Tom]

Hard to tell what could be happening.

If it’s not the above, I would contact your server and see if they have any ideas.

You can also try #1 on this page: https://generatepress.com/knowledgebase/debugging/

[mapsarska]

I sorted all up again. Seems ok so far, will check what will happen when i will try to add new pages. Now i have 109 pages. Linked by parenting and in dropdown menu.

I dunno why but i have an impression that wordpress menu builder in admin panel is somehow in conflict with Generate Press menu builder in customizer. Are you sure Tom there is no conflict there?

[Tom]

There’s no such thing as a GeneratePress menu builder – it’s all WordPress.

GP keeps it super simple to avoid any conflicts.

The WP menu/any menu isn’t really equipped to handle that many pages.

I would suggest a sitemap or a list of regular links in your footer to display all of your pages.

Main navigations/dropdowns are meant for a limited amount of important items.

[bdbrown]

Tom is right; when it comes to menus, fewer items is better. Here’s an article on website navigation best practices and here’s one on making a sitemap.

[mapsarska]

Thanks guys i have html sitemap, even placed in lst item in my main menu.

http://www.adlerpneumatyka.pl/mapa-witryny/

Unfourtunately i dont have any other option, i must create whole offer of my company.

This is a quick glance of our old website on joomla 1.5

http://www.mar.sklep.pl

It is created in a different way but also very big product list.

[Tom]

Increasing the number mentioned in the above article (http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-custom-menu-items-limit-in-wordpress/) should allow you to add more and more items 🙂

[mapsarska]

i will test it, i use the solution in the link to add vars in php.ini file on my serwer files but maybe also the contact with hosting its needed what do you think?

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