Problem with Menu Builder: No posts selectable, several post boxes, …

Well, here’s my promised feedback on the whole procedure.

a) Everything went fine. The blog is back to where it was before my DB got corrupted.

b) The problem with the menu builder is/was definitely a theme issue. I was pretty certain about that, but I wanted to make sure. So, I went through the procedure several times, always starting with a clean DB, a clean empty folder and one of my DB dumps. As soon as I installed the offending theme, I got the problem. The problem also persisted once I removed/deleted the theme.

So, thanks a bunch for your help, esmi. I’m one happy camper again … and have switched to a mobile-friendly responsive theme instead of using the intended bloated other one that was throwing up this darn problem.

OK.

I’m back, in the hope that you are not gone, esmi. 🙂

Everything works fine, but in the menu builder, I still don’t have a “posts” box. I don’t need it (never have, never will), but that problem tells me that my DB/WP setup is still NOT 100% OK.

In the menu builder, I have:

Theme Locations
Custom Links
Pages
Categories

A “Posts” select box is missing.

It has been a long time since I last worked with the website and all I can recall is that about 2 years ago, I had to delete some posts via the DB, posts that I had entered multiple times with the same title (and those titles were identical in the DB, not appended with post-01, post-02, or whatever).

Maybe, I screwed things up that time?

That’s all I can remember.

Would be nice if you or anyone else could chime in here with some thoughts.
Thanks!

🙂

Yes, that’s what I’m referring to.
The box from which I can select any of my posts in the appearance -> menus (to add them to a menu) is missing completely. I have it in other WP installs.

Everything else works.

As I mentioned before, I don’t need that option (at all), but its absence makes me suspicious. Since it is missing, I suspect that my WP installation is faulty.

Esmi, thanks again for chiming in once more. 🙂

Esmi, I’m sorry for having confused you (and myself).

I have some sort of issues that threw up this quirk (no plugins, I think).

Do NOT ask me how/why, but within the 8 or 9 WP sites I have (with my hoster), I had one new install that actually did show me a “posts” section in the appearance->menus section.

As I was installing a new site with someone sitting next to me at my PC today, that person can confirm that it was there (just checked with her again). It didn’t make sense to me as someone who has – say – 10.000 posts does NOT need a select box from which he/she can choose a post to add to a menu. The WP-> appearance->menu page would load forever.

To solve the problem I was experiencing again and again with various WP installations today and in the past was to DELETE all my browsers (I have a copy of most popular ones on my PC, IE, FF, Opera, Safari, etc.) completely (also all registry entries) and reinstall them.

I just completed this after my last post.

Right now, everything works fine.
And, to be quite honest, I am quite relieved.

Thanks for your help, please ignore the ramblings of some old WP user and …

… if you should ever be in Germany, I owe you some super-huge beers.
And I mean that.

Contact me!
🙂

I’ll mark this “resolved” … and just shut up.
Promise.
😀