WordPress Failing to Update Hyperlinks

  • For theory’s sake, let’s say the site index is:

    https://fitnessexperts.com/

    There are four other pages on this website, five in total:

    – Home
    – Gallery
    – Testimonials
    – Programs
    – Train With Me

    The issue is that the main navigation in my chosen WordPress theme seems to not be modular. Rather than there being one navigation with 5 links, and PHP module references to that navigation, there are 25 links. 5 per page.

    WordPress only allows me to edit 5 of these, and thus 80% of the links on this site are broken / failing to update.

    If I go from Home to Testimony, the Testimony page loads up correctly, as the “Testimony” button points to https://fitnessexperts.com/testimony

    If I go from Gallery to Testimony, the Testimony page fails to load, because the “Testimony” button points to https://fitnessexperts.com/testimonies

    With the current interface in WordPress, I cannot edit the navigation hyperlinks on a per-page basis with any precision. Meaning I have to fix these broken links manually in code. The problem is: I have absolutely no idea where these pages are stored.

    I’ve tried connecting to my site with FTP, I downloaded the whole file structure. 90% of it is WordPress files, none of them are my actual web pages. I had the same issue when navigating the file structure via SSH. The database “posts” table hasn’t updated in 3 months and is clearly not storing any of this information. So my question is:

    Where are they being stored? Where can I find these pages so that I can manually change and fix the hyperlinks?

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  • Menus?

    Dashboard –> Appearance –> Menus

    Unless somebody hardcoded a menu into your theme. I certainly hope they didn’t…

    You’ll not see ‘actual pages’ in your WordPress file system as the pages are created ‘on the fly’ by the CMS from what is contained in your database.

    Thread Starter faintdev

    (@faintdev)

    Yeah, Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus -> Main Navigation is where I changed them to begin with. However, the changes are only applying to some of the links on some of the pages.

    I suppose it’s worth noting that these all hyperlink to a parked domain.

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