Title: Appearance Menu Items
Last modified: August 2, 2025

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# Appearance Menu Items

 *  [speedneeds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/speedneeds/)
 * (@speedneeds)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appearance-menu-items/)
 * The Appearance Menu on my WordPress dashboard has lost all menu items except 
   for Themes and Editor. I am unable to do Custom CSS or work with my Menu. How
   do I get the default WordPress options back?

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 *  [r1k0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r1k0/)
 * (@r1k0)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appearance-menu-items/#post-18582824)
 * Hey [@speedneeds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/speedneeds/),
 * The **Appearance** menu items are determined by the theme currently in use. Block
   themes, eg, Twenty Twenty-* themes, only come with two options. The themes and
   editor options.
 * While classic themes, eg, Astra, rely on different options to make adjustments
   to the site. Some options are themes, customize, widgets, menus,** **etc.
 * All the things you mentioned above like adding custom CSS and making edits to
   the menu, are still possible with block themes’ full site editor.
 * It sounds like you are using a block theme. So the question would be what theme
   are you currently using?
 * Regards,
   Erick
 *  Thread Starter [speedneeds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/speedneeds/)
 * (@speedneeds)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appearance-menu-items/#post-18582970)
 * I am currently using Twenty Twenty Five. That is the theme I have been using 
   from the beginning and I think that those options use to be there. I know I have
   used them in the past.
 *  [r1k0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r1k0/)
 * (@r1k0)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appearance-menu-items/#post-18582997)
 * The Twenty Twenty-Five theme is a block-based full site editing theme. The menus
   you are talking about have not been there for FSE themes (Twenty Twenty-Two and
   later), and now editing of every part of the site is possible through the Site
   Editor. By default, this theme comes with those two options.
 * Since you’ve mentioned having them before, this can be due to a plugin that brought
   back the old functionality. If you want to get the menu items back, you can consider
   switching to a classic theme (Astra, Twenty Twenty-One, Generate Press, etc.)
   or using a plugin.
 * To get additional CSS, go to Editor > Styles > Additional CSS, and to get the
   menu, go to Editor > Navigation.
 * If you want to stick to your current theme, you can learn how to best use it 
   to unlock its full potential. The resource below should help:
   [https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson/intro-to-the-site-editor-copy/](https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson/intro-to-the-site-editor-copy/)
   [https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/site-editor/](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/site-editor/)
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appearance-menu-items/#post-18583017)
 * There are plugins such as [https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-menus-for-block-themes/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-menus-for-block-themes/)
   that restore the menu entries you are missing in the backend for a block theme.
   Perhaps you had one of these in use and have now deactivated it.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * Last activity: [9 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appearance-menu-items/#post-18583017)
 * Status: not resolved

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