Title: Creating Menu Deletes All Posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Creating Menu Deletes All Posts

 *  Resolved [drlester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drlester/)
 * (@drlester)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-menu-deletes-all-posts/)
 * I decided to update an old site with a new responsive theme and other good stuff.
   When I created a menu in **Appearance / Menus** (the old theme didn’t support
   that), all of my **200+** published posts disappeared from the database. Only
   three old draft posts showed up in **All Posts**.
 * Fortunately, I have a good database backup, which I restored. The above has happened
   three times while I was trying to figure out what was going on. It happens whether
   the new theme or the old theme is activated.
 * I hope I don’t have to leave this old site the way it is! Do you have a suggestion?
 * Lane

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-menu-deletes-all-posts/#post-4680618)
 * What theme are you using? Where did you download it from?
 *  Thread Starter [drlester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drlester/)
 * (@drlester)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-menu-deletes-all-posts/#post-4680815)
 * The problem turned out to be the result of a plugin that removes old posts. I
   had used it to get rid of a lot of old garbage and forgot to deactivate it.
 * Lane

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 * Last reply from: [drlester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drlester/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-menu-deletes-all-posts/#post-4680815)
 * Status: resolved

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