bobHeath

I seem to have resolved this myself, although I’m still a bit confused about it. The duplication problem was because when I created the new “Top Menu”, WP automatically created empty pages with those same names. Once I realized that and deleted the empty pages, the duplicate menu entries went away. I still didn’t know how to edit the menu into the order I wanted though. Somehow though, I was left with a definition for a “Top Menu” that contained the links to the actual Shop, Cart, etc pages. I don’t think existed before I tried to create my own Top Level menu with links to blank pages, so that’s a bit puzzling. But reordering the items in the “Top Menu” still didn’t affect the item order in the actual menu. Then I tried clicking the location button for “Primary Menu” instead of “Top Menu” and then I suddenly had the ability to modify the actual menu order. So, like I said, I’m still a bit confused about how I got there, but I did finally get there.

Thanks bemdesign. I believe you are correct. After my last post, I changed my search to look for posts about problems with uploading of images and found other hints that the image dimensions might be the problem. So, I tried again with smaller images (1024 on the long side as you suggest) and it worked. It surprises me that there isn’t a warning when the post-processing fails to complete, but I agree with you that that is apparently what is happening.

Now that I’ve done this with a smaller file, I see what is supposed to happen when a file is successfully uploaded. Now I know what to watch for so I can get back to work on creating my new website.

Thanks for your help.

Since I originally posted this as a problem that appears in version 3.8, I got an email telling me that my site had been automatically updated to 3.8.1. I tried uploading another image and including it in a post to verify that the problem was still there. It is, but I noticed something else:

When I upload an image by dragging and dropping it, it initially fills in a progress bar as it loads, then it displays the message “Crunching…”. It just stays on that screen with that message until I click another selection in the menu. I’m brand new to WP, so I’m not sure exactly what’s supposed to happen here, but that seemed a bit odd.

I also tried uploading with the browser uploader. After I click upload, it delays for a moment, while it uploads I guess, then switches to a completely blank screen. That seems equally odd.

When I look in the Media Library, the files are there which initially lead me to believe that the upload had worked, but now I’m not so sure. Maybe it isn’t finishing the job and that’s why it can’t figure out the correct size of the image to insert later.