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1. magblogapi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am using the Appearance Menus editor (werrry naisse).

   I have a big, honkin' menu, and I'm using the rather piggy Suffusion theme.

   Whenever I submit a menu, it takes forever and a day, and ends with the following message splashed across the top of the screen:

   "Request-URI Too Large

   The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server."

   That tells me that GET is being used, when POST should be used. I know, because the exact same thing happened when I was designing my plugin.

   Now, this may well be a Suffusion issue, but it may also be a WP issue.

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Could be :) Time for troubleshooting!

   How big a menu are we talking? Can you list how many items in it?

   Have you tested with another theme? I can fire up my testbed and see if I can repro it on a vanilla WordPress site to see.

3. magblogapi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Well, here's the site.

   Here's a screenshot of the menu layout.

   Here's the options from the DB.

   Maybe these can help?

4. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You couldn't have just counted it all up? ;) 48 menu items is probably pretty inefficient, and not the best way about it. At that high a number, you're going to have people not reading down the line so much, I suspect.

   But.

   Yeah, you have a limit. It's in part because the menu info passed through the URL is going borky, but also you'll hit a PHP limit eventually if this is still accurate: http://wpquestions.com/question/show/id/1640

   This may also be related to http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134

5. magblogapi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Well, I believe in providing full disclosure. ;D

   You are absolutely correct, from a usability point of view. I'm on it. The menu will shrink. I just need to figure the best way to organize it. I have already made a bunch of pages into series posts (There's a lot of info, and it needs to be made more accessible).

   In any case, that doesn't mean this isn't a bug (or shouldn't be documented more completely).

   With POST, you can have some damn big transfers. I use it for the BMLT options, which can be big.

6. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Suggest it on trac.wordpress.org? Or comment in that ticket I linked to. It may help 'em out :)

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