Hi John,
did you solved this problem?
I have the same issue…
Thanks in advance
Luz
I found an alternate way that works for the site that I experienced the issue with.
I believe it was 2 fold. I contact my hosting company and asked them to increase the maximum input variables, max_input_vars, to 2000. The site is on a VPS so this wasn’t a problem.
Some host providers allow this change to happen in the .htaccess file.
Log in to your WP sites admin. Go to your site, i.e. the home page of the site or any page, at the top you’ll get the WP banner menu which contains your site name, the artists brush with the word Customize, perhaps the number of comments to approve and a + New.
Click on customize and the modify the menu through there by then clicking in to the Menus from the left navigation.
This worked but it still does not work through the Appearance -> Menu’s section.
I hope this also works for you.
Thanks John,
I can modify my menus via Customize, but I think it’s easier for the users to admin menus via Menus because I have 8 menus with similar item names and lots of hierarchies. I will try with maximum input variables.
thanks a lot for your quick answer
best
L
@johnish411
Relates a bit to.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134
Normally max_input_vars = 5000
Would be fine being defined in PHP.ini
@thelight2015 — it’s A HELLA easier if I could do it through menus too; I certainly understand this.
@luke – Didn’t we meet before? Anyways I’ll ask to increase this to 5k. The host had it at something small like 1200. Yes I’m very familiar with php.ini LOL
@johnish411
I do not believe so, increasing in PHP.ini would be fine.
Just wanted to add, I had this exact issue, and this fix had no effect. I’m vaguely embarrassed to admit it was an old plugin I had installed—WP Firewall 2. Disabling that plugin was all it took… Sigh…
Thanks for the tip. WP Firewall 2 also was the culprit for my menu.
