Way to "unbold" header items?

Hi chromopsis,

Thanks for the kind words!

I’m just off out now but I’ll add a header font weight setting into the theme editor when I get back, should be released by this evening. I’ll post an update here when it’s done ??

terrific! thanks so much for your quick reply, and for the update!!

One more minor, aesthetic question, completely understand if it is not possible or too much:

Is it possible for a mega panel to have transparency as it lies over the page? or is this a png-24 issue?

Thanks again, your menu has made my unruly page manageable.
https://www.romechurches.com

Hi chronopsis,

I’ve just released 1.0.3 which includes the header font weight option and made a fix so you can choose semi transparent colors (use the bottom horizontal bar on the color picker to adjust the transparency).

Let me know how it goes. If you’re happy I’d appreciate it if you could take a couple of minutes to leave a review ??

Regards,
Tom.

Works great, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much! Review posted.

You’re welcome, thanks for my first (real) review!

After updating today, the menu seems to be having problems.

The menu stopped working (reverting to standard menu). Going to the the Menu Editor, it states that the menu has no location set. When I reset it, the menu doesn’t work – just a long list pops up on rollover. I de-activatedand re-activated, got it to work (once), but then loses the location setting again.

A new wrinkle – I reloaded 1.0.3, and seemed to get it to work again. But I noticed the menu has lost a couple of my top-level pages. I replaced them, and then it stopped working again.

One of the pages lost was a simple page with images, the other a page with a contact form using Contact Form 7. Could there be a conflict there?

Just to give you more info, whenever I make a change to the menu structure and save, the menu loses its location. The Mega Menu settings states “This menu is not tagged to a location. Please tag a location to enable the Mega Menu settings.”

Upon resetting the location, the menu loses the pages I had added. If I try to add them back, the same thing happens again – saving the menu causes it to lose location.

OK, further research…is there a page limit for mega menu? If so, this may be the problem. I added two more pages today, and that’s when the trouble started.

Upon removing pages, the plugin worked again.

It appears that 70 pages total (placed top level or sub item) is the max – adding the 71st causes the location setting loss upon saving the menu. That 71st page is also identified as “custom” next to its page name in its icon (rather than “sub item” or nothing for top-level pages).

In order to include the two top-level pages on my menu, I had to remove the two sub-item pages I had added under “individual churches.” I have about 100 more pages to add…
romechurches.com

One last thing…if I disable the Mega Menu plugin, I can go back to adding additional pages to my menu structure, going beyond the 70. Upon reactivating the plugin, it accepts these new pages and works. BUT, if I then try to add any more and/or simply save the menu while the plugin is active, the problem returns and I have to deactivate again.

Hi chronopsis,

Sorry to hear you’re having troubles. I think you’re running into a problem that I’d read about while developing Mega Menu, but hadn’t experienced myself.

There’s a limit on how many pieces of data you can send to PHP before it just cuts off the post data. The cut off data is stopping your menu from being tagged to a location (I think!)

With a normal, unmodified menu, it looks like roughly 12 pieces of data (depending on the menu item type) are sent to the server for each menu item you have, each time you save the menu. With Mega Menu enabled, that goes up by a total of by 3 pieces of data for each item.

So. with Mega Menu disabled if you have 70 menu items, that’s 840 pieces of data being sent to your server each time you click ‘save’.

With Mega Menu enabled, that goes up 3 per menu item, so in total that’s 1050 pieces of data.

(hope you’re still following?! :))

Based on that, I think your server has a limit of 1000 pieces of data, and that’s why you’re seeing these problems when Mega Menu is enabled.

By my calculations, I think you’ll run into the same problem (even with Mega Menu disabled), once you hit around 85-90 menu items. Maybe it would be worth testing this theory by trying to add some of those extra menu items you were planning on?

To lift the 1000 item limit, you need to edit your php.ini file as mentioned in this post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/menu-size-limit?replies=33

(tldr: set max_input_vars = 2000 in php.ini)

Thanks for the info – I had come across the php info online, and edited the php.ini file on my server. I changed the max_input_vars first to 2000, then to 5000. Unfortunately this hasn’t resolved the problem. I wonder if there is some sort of caching thing going on at this point. I’ve dumped the browser cache several times just in case.
I also wonder if my changing that limit has any effect, or if the host has another limit somewhere (bluehost)?

strike that – I just tried again and it appears to be working. Perhaps there was a bit of a delay with my server, and another cache-clearing did it. I’ll keep you posted, but THANKs again for your responsiveness.

Cool, good to hear that’s sorted, I’ll add it to the FAQ ??