Adding menu items adds posts

  • Resolved cyberwest

    (@cyberwest)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    I have this really annoying situation with a WordPress site I’m building. Now, everytime I add an item to a menu, it creates an Uncategorized post that appears in the blogroll and recent posts listing. It doesn’t appear in the Posts part of the dashboard, and I can delete it if I use PHPMyAdmin to delete the post in the appropriate database table. But that also deletes the menu item. So I can either have a blog listing with loads of non-existent empty posts in it, or no menus. Any suggestions on why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? It’s driving me crazy!

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by cyberwest.
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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    You don’t mention what version of WP you are using.
    Can you try installing the Health Check plugin and use the Troubleshoot mode to try it with all plugins disabled? (site visitors will be unaffected)
    Each menu item is stored in the posts table, as are Customizer changesets, Additional CSS, attachments, and revisions. It sounds like an old plugin could be interfering with a category assignment on post save or something like that.

    CrouchingBruin

    (@crouchingbruin)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Go to Appearance → Menus and scroll down to the bottom section labeled Menu Settings. Uncheck the box labeled Auto add pages Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu.

    Thread Starter cyberwest

    (@cyberwest)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks – the troubleshooter helped. It was a plugin called Simple Long Form causing the problem.

    Thread Starter cyberwest

    (@cyberwest)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Help much appreciated!

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