Menu Item issues

The following link will display the issue

https://virtatron.com/wordpress-4-4-1-error/

That looks like there’s been sone CSS changes. That would explain why there’s the dots there (menus are held as list items so get leading dots by default), and most likely the spacing as well.

What theme are you using? I couldn’t tell much at all from that screenshot.

Thanks for jumping in.
I am using the small biz them by expand2wed.

I’ll check your suggested link from the email

After investigation I found the following. I verified catacaustic’s observation that it was list related. I duplicated the problem by creating a creating tow type of list using
<li></li>
and

<ul>
<li></li>
<li></li>
</ul>

.
Upon comparing the web source code generated at run time by 4.1 and 4.4.1 (I mistakenly submitted 4.2.1 as the version I ungraded from) I saw the following:

In WP 4.1 source code

'<div class="menu">
<ul><li class="page_item page-item-5 current_page_item">'

In WP 4.4.1
'<div class="menu"><li class="page_item page-item-5 current_page_item">'

As you can see WP 4.1 uses an unstructured list while 4.4.1 does not.

I do not know if this was a bug or intentional and I don’t know where in the code this happens. I am not a developer and will need some input from perhaps one of the WordPress developers.

What file did you find that difference in?

And just in case… to post code in the forums here you need to click on the code button above, or you end up getting messed up code – like yours above, that’s unreadable and doesn’t help with the problem.

The 4.1 code should look like this don’t know what happened to the ul in the previous post.

In WP 4.1 source code

<div class=”menu”>

<li class=”page_item page-item-5 current_page_item”>Home

In WP 4.1 source code

<div class="menu"><ul><li class="page_item page-item-5 current_page_item"><a href=“https://virtatron.com/">Home</a></li>
In Wp 4.4.1

<div class=”menu”><li class=”page_item page-item-5 current_page_item”>Home

The above was in the source when viewing the two versions of the website. I have not located the file this is in.

Sorry for the bad code post. I am new and learning. Thought I had put in the back tick.

That’s the pages source code. Not the WordPress source code.

I highly doubt that it’s something that WordPress has done – mainly because the HTML code and the styling is almost always part of the theme. In your case it looks like like something has changed in the theme and has thrown out your site. I’d advise you to look through the header.php file of your theme to see what is in there as that should be where the code is coming from.

I mentioned the source when viewing each website.

There was no updates for the theme in either the 4.4 or 4.4.1 wp upgrade. I looked at the dates of the files and they all see old. I am going to compare the them files for before and after the upgrade to see if something change in the background.
My intention was always to check with the theme creator to get their take on this.

The theme developers provided me with some information and a procedure to try. I will update this post when that task is completed.

Josh at the theme development company Expand2Web stated “The latest version of WordPress requires you to use the WordPress Menu builder. Using the old way of setting the menu structure no longer works.”

I played with it briefly and it will work.

This issue is resolved