Title: Lost parent page pull-down menu
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Lost parent page pull-down menu

 *  [ckids](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ckids/)
 * (@ckids)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-parent-page-pull-down-menu/)
 * I created a page, “Resources” with about 6 subpages. When I tested the site live
   briefly, I could see the parent page and the subpages listed.
 * When I logged back in tonight to create more subpages and clicked create new 
   page, I no longer see the parent pull-down menu in the Attributes panel on the
   right side.
 * And if I go into edit page mode for subpages already established, it does not
   show the parent page pull-down menu on those pages either and then if I edit 
   and save, it saves them as top-level.
 * I have no idea what setting I might have changed to cause this problem, but how
   do I get the subpages/parent menu to show in create new page or edit page mode?

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 *  Thread Starter [ckids](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ckids/)
 * (@ckids)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-parent-page-pull-down-menu/#post-943425)
 * Additional info:
 * I checked the error log for server and see that when I am trying to edit pages,
   it’s returning an error message showing it’s looking for WP-POLLS, even though
   I’m not doing anything with polls and am just trying to edit a page. So I deactivated
   the WP-POLLS plugin and tried again. It will create a new page, but without showing
   the parent page pulldown menu. And everything is still messed up if I try to 
   edit an existing page and it loses the previously established subpage state. 
   So I tried to check/repair the database, and see this in the server log:
 * WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual
   that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near‘
   ORDER BY pollq_id DESC’ at line 1 for query SELECT pollq_id, pollq_question FROM
   ORDER BY pollq_id DESC made by wp_list_widgets, call_user_func_array, wp_widget_control,
   call_user_func_array, widget_polls_options, referer: [http://[url]/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=16](http://[url]/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=16)
 * What the heck is going on and what do I do? I’ve never had any problems with 
   previous versions of Word Press, and I really need to get this new domain set
   up.
 * I should note that although I’ve had the WP-POLLs plugin activated until now,
   the page creation and editing functions were working fine. I have no idea what
   happened between the last time I shut down and this time, but logging out didn’t
   work and nothing’s working. I’m losing all my hard work. Help, please!
 *  [vinceger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinceger/)
 * (@vinceger)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-parent-page-pull-down-menu/#post-943707)
 * Have the same problem, did you fix this already?

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 * Last reply from: [vinceger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinceger/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-parent-page-pull-down-menu/#post-943707)
 * Status: not resolved

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