Unwanted admin menu item breaks alignment

Hello Joerg,

I am sorry about the issue you described, though not clear. Can you please provide us with screenshots that highlight the issue you are experiencing? You can use any image-sharing service like https://pasteboard.co/, https://snag.gy/, https://imgur.com/, https://snipboard.io/, or even upload the screenshot to your own website. Once you upload it to an image sharing service, please share the link to the image here.

Hi Maybellyne,

thanks for your response.

here is a screenshot that should tell everything: https://pasteboard.co/hpTt3zGyTWwV.png

Looking forward to your feedback!

Hi @newshoremedia

Thanks for sharing this screenshot. We aren’t able to reproduce this on our end. Could you let us know what theme you are using for that website?

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict, is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty.

Please test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts

With a default WP theme and just Yoast SEO 18.9, are you able to reproduce the issue? Or does it occur only when you switch to your preferred theme?

Hi,

I marked this thread as resolved due to a lack of activity by the original poster. The original poster is always welcome to re-open this topic.

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Hi there, I’ve been seeing the same thing for the past three or four weeks now.

Yoast has added multiple empty submenu items with this markup:

<li class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu"><a href="admin.php?page=wpseo_installation_successful_free" class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu" aria-haspopup="true"><div class="wp-menu-arrow"><div></div></div><div class="wp-menu-image dashicons-before" aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="wp-menu-name"></div></a>
	<ul class="wp-submenu wp-submenu-wrap"><li class="wp-submenu-head" aria-hidden="true"></li><li class="wp-first-item current"><a href="admin.php?page=wpseo_installation_successful_free" class="wp-first-item current" aria-current="page"></a></li><li><a href="admin.php?page=wpseo_configurator"></a></li></ul></li>

When you click the empty link, it takes you to a page telling you that “You’ve successfully installed Yoast SEO!”

ImgBB photo links:
Empty Yoast submenu links: https://ibb.co/PrnK3yp
Successful install page: https://ibb.co/rwZFtcL

I’m also seeing this strange empty menu.

<li class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu"><a href="admin.php?page=wpseo_installation_successful_free" class="wp-has-submenu wp-not-current-submenu" aria-haspopup="true"><div class="wp-menu-arrow"><div></div></div><div class="wp-menu-image dashicons-before" aria-hidden="true"></div><div class="wp-menu-name"></div></a>
	<ul class="wp-submenu wp-submenu-wrap"><li class="wp-submenu-head" aria-hidden="true"></li><li class="wp-first-item"><a href="admin.php?page=wpseo_installation_successful_free" class="wp-first-item"></a></li><li><a href="admin.php?page=wpseo_configurator"></a></li></ul></li>

This seems to appear between my 4th and 5th custom post type. Not sure if that has something to do with it or not, but this menu simply should not exist.