Cannot Create New Drop Down Menu

  • My website: https://www.bluesage.org. I’ve only been at this a couple of weeks, but everything has run smoothly. Now I’ve run into the strangest problem: I am currently unable to add child pages below their parent pages from the custom menu feature so that they appear on the drop down menu (using the 2011 theme). They get added to the menu, but when I “drag and drop” them underneath their parent page instead of showing up below the parent page, they appear at the top. This problem started after I messed around with the Events Manager Plugin to get different calendars on different pages and only affect one menu (Events). The menus with dropdown set up before this problem began are still working fine. I’ve tried:
    1. Deleting all the pages in the tree with the problem and rebuilding it
    2. Creating a new menu

    Neither of these solved the problem or changed the problem at all.
    I’ve no experience modifying the HTML and accessing the style sheets and whatnot, though I’m not afraid to do it but will need a lot of guidance.

    Thanks,
    Annette

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  • 1. Update WordPress and the Twenty Eleven theme asap.

    2. Deactivate all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    3. Reset the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    Disabling all 40 plugins on one of my blogs solved this issue. Now I’m doing the search and destroy to figure out which one(s) caused the problem in the first place.

    In my case, the plugin that breaks WP 3.1 menus was wp Time Machine (for backups)…

    Thread Starter Annette Pretorius

    (@annette-pretorius)

    Thanks Esmi, I tried deactivating all the plugins from the admin menu and temporarily disabling the plugins folder by ftp, but nothing changed the problem. Any more thoughts? I can’t believe how quickly you responded.

    So then I was trying to show the problem to someone else, and as an experiment we moved a sub-menu to be a main menu, and tried to move it back. In retrospect, probably a bad move as my site is live and all these things are being shown on the website as I’m doing them, but when we hit save when trying to move the menu back we got the message “. . . ID does not appear to be a menu ID” or something like that. When we went back to pages, and then back to appearance->menu, only four of the menus came back. ??

    Trevor, it’s nice to know that I’m not the only one.

    Annette

    Thread Starter Annette Pretorius

    (@annette-pretorius)

    The curious thing is that when I deleted the custom menu the automatic menu creator added drop menus with all the child pages.

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