Title: Cannot Create New Drop Down Menu
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Cannot Create New Drop Down Menu

 *  [Annette Pretorius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annette-pretorius/)
 * (@annette-pretorius)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-new-drop-down-menu/)
 * My website: [http://www.bluesage.org](http://www.bluesage.org). I’ve only been
   at this a couple of weeks, but everything has run smoothly. Now I’ve run into
   the strangest problem: I am currently unable to add child pages below their parent
   pages from the custom menu feature so that they appear on the drop down menu (
   using the 2011 theme). They get added to the menu, but when I “drag and drop”
   them underneath their parent page instead of showing up below the parent page,
   they appear at the top. This problem started after I messed around with the Events
   Manager Plugin to get different calendars on different pages and only affect 
   one menu (Events). The menus with dropdown set up before this problem began are
   still working fine. I’ve tried:
    1. Deleting all the pages in the tree with the
   problem and rebuilding it 2. Creating a new menu
 * Neither of these solved the problem or changed the problem at all.
    I’ve no experience
   modifying the HTML and accessing the style sheets and whatnot, though I’m not
   afraid to do it but will need a lot of guidance.
 * Thanks,
    Annette

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-new-drop-down-menu/#post-2633362)
 * 1. Update WordPress and the Twenty Eleven theme asap.
 * 2. Deactivate **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * 3. [Reset the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 *  [trevor.snyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorsnyder-1/)
 * (@trevorsnyder-1)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-new-drop-down-menu/#post-2633431)
 * Disabling all 40 plugins on one of my blogs solved this issue. Now I’m doing 
   the search and destroy to figure out which one(s) caused the problem in the first
   place.
 *  [trevor.snyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorsnyder-1/)
 * (@trevorsnyder-1)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-new-drop-down-menu/#post-2633433)
 * In my case, the plugin that breaks WP 3.1 menus was wp Time Machine (for backups)…
 *  Thread Starter [Annette Pretorius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annette-pretorius/)
 * (@annette-pretorius)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-new-drop-down-menu/#post-2633462)
 * Thanks Esmi, I tried deactivating all the plugins from the admin menu and temporarily
   disabling the plugins folder by ftp, but nothing changed the problem. Any more
   thoughts? I can’t believe how quickly you responded.
 * So then I was trying to show the problem to someone else, and as an experiment
   we moved a sub-menu to be a main menu, and tried to move it back. In retrospect,
   probably a bad move as my site is live and all these things are being shown on
   the website as I’m doing them, but when we hit save when trying to move the menu
   back we got the message “. . . ID does not appear to be a menu ID” or something
   like that. When we went back to pages, and then back to appearance->menu, only
   four of the menus came back. ??
 * Trevor, it’s nice to know that I’m not the only one.
 * Annette
 *  Thread Starter [Annette Pretorius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annette-pretorius/)
 * (@annette-pretorius)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-new-drop-down-menu/#post-2633463)
 * The curious thing is that when I deleted the custom menu the automatic menu creator
   added drop menus with all the child pages.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Annette Pretorius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annette-pretorius/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-create-new-drop-down-menu/#post-2633463)
 * Status: not resolved

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