[Plugin: WordPress Menu Creator] Serious Flaw

  • I want to report a problem, not so much a bug, but what I term a serious missing piece.

    When you create submenu items, it does not display anywhere.

    I would expect the submenu items to display along with the parents on the Edit Custom Menu, but they don’t. So there is no way to edit them.

    The only way I even know they are created is because of the number shown under #Items on the Custom Menu Manager page.

    This is serious since anyone who has a lot of menu items can’t edit or delete any of the submenu items. The only option is to delete the whole menu and start again … which is unacceptable.

    Is 1.03 going to fix this?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-menu-creator/

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  • Actually the submenu items will show up. You have to use the ID which Menu Creator assigns. It is in the left, or first, column. This is the number which goes in the “Parent” box. And your subitems will have an “Order” of 0, 1, 2.

    For example, if your first menu item is “Home”, you would have a “1” in the “Parent” box. (In this case you would have the address of your blog in the “Value” box, i.e. “https://myblog.com”.) The Type would be “External Link”. (You would need to make sure that Menu Creator assigned a “1” as an ID.) You would have a “0” in the “Order” box.

    If your second menu item is “News”, the “Type” would be “Post/Page” and the “Value” would be the ID of your page supplied by WordPress. The “Order” would be “1”. The “Parent” should be “2”.

    If you have a subitem under “News”, the “Type”, for example, could be “Post/Page” and the “Value” would be the ID of your page supplied by WordPress. The “Order” would be “0”, because it is the first subitem. The “Parent” would be “2”.

    You also need to check and see if Menu Creator has actually created the menu item. (It doesn’t always do it.)

    But the plugin is unstable at this stage and not worth the effort. When you delete a menu, it isn’t deleted from the database.

    I would say the plugin has a ways to go before it is ready. Also, none of the videos or samples are on the website.

    It would probably take less time to write your own menu system. But if you want to keep trying maybe the hints I gave you will help.

    I seem to be having a similar issue, however, with one difference:

    My menu isn’t showing up at all.

    It doesn’t display in the generated HTML code, as if that PHP is parsed over but not quite >read<. I’ve added in a few test items; not sure if maybe I’m doing something wrong? I checked to make sure that I have used the proper ID, and even adjusted my levels. Not sure what else to do other than to just hardcode a menu from this point, but frankly I wanted to have a solution where I didn’t >need< to handcode menus like this for 500+ sites.

    [edit] Well, I managed to have the menu appear now, perhaps just a bug with my browser – strange, though. I viewed the generated source and saw the code there when I tested it initially, so just a weird, weird day-long glitch.

    The menus created dont create the functionality to accommodate them you still need to add your CSS in order for them to work. I have several dozen examples that I’ll publish for people this coming week so you can see that.

    BTW the new release handles Link Title, Target, and Now ACTIVE state.

    Jared Ritchey

    We have added new features and functionality.

    Check the update docs

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