manicolaus

Same question here.

My menu only has about 45 items, and the site is new and still quite small (<50 pages, <50 posts, <30 tags, <12 categories). The menu contains pages exclusively, or external links, no tags or categories. Yet when I try to save a menu change, my site crashes with a “500” error about 8 times out of 10. I am running the twenty-ten theme with WP 3.0, with a child theme. This menu problem has been ongoing before the child theme and before any plugins were activated. I’ve tried increasing the time-outs in php.ini without effect. This is quite frustrating. I see in the bug-tracker forum that this issue was discussed, and closed as resolved, but it isn’t resolved on my site and I would like to see it reopened. The site is https://lifering.org

OK, figured it out. It looks like the twenty ten theme originally set the width of the dropdown menu items at 130px. This is under “@access ul ul a” on the style.css. Then the updated twenty ten theme reset the width at 160px. I had used the old width spec in the style.css of my child theme, overriding the new width. Removing the width spec from my child theme solved the problem. All better now.

That’s the one I have installed. Does a great job rearranging items in the admin interface but changes nothing in what the user sees.

I’ve changed the pub dates on the stories to get them to line up chronologically by pub date and that doesn’t work either.

I’m shutting the site and moving the content to Drupal. Life is too short.

I’m having the same problem. No matter what I do, the pages on the menu don’t show up in the same order as in the admin interface.
I’m running WP 2.8.3.
I’ve downloaded the page menu editor plugin, and it does a good job of rearranging the pages order in the Pages display in the admin interface, but it has absolutely no effect on the page order on the sidebar menu that the user sees. I’ve tried several different templates with the same result.
I’ve tried changing the page title, the page numerical order, burning incense and beating a tambourine, to no effect.
I tried finding the sort_order line in practically every php file both in the theme and in the WP core and couldn’t find it. I don’t really feel comfortable messing with the PHP code anyway and I don’t feel I should have to do that in order to get the page menu tuned. I’ve even gone into the MySQL db and changed the ID number of the latest revision of this story, but that didn’t work either.
Frankly I’m about to bail for Drupal, where you can do this kind of menu tuning out of the box.

Ditto on “I really like it.”

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— M.