Title: WordPress Menu Not Saving
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress Menu Not Saving

 *  Resolved [M J](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m2j/)
 * (@m2j)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-menu-not-saving/)
 * Hello all,
 * My wordpress install has been behaving very strange. When I save a custom menu(
   to be used in a widget) and head to the widgets section, the custom menu widget
   says no custom menus exist.
 * When I return to the menu section, there are no menus there, and when I attempt
   to save a new menu with the same title as before, I get an error stating the 
   menu title already exists.
 * Does anyone know what the issue might be? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [M J](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m2j/)
 * (@m2j)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-menu-not-saving/#post-3145374)
 * Ok, this one was figured out.
 * Steps taken to troubleshoot.
 * 1. Enable `DEBUG`option in `wp-config.php`
    2. Error was displayed on front end.
   Was a MySQL permissions error that would not allow writing to the `/tmp` directory
   3. Needed to `chown`the `/tmp` directory to the correct user to allow WordPress
   to access the directory.

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## Tags

 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

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 * Last reply from: [M J](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m2j/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-menu-not-saving/#post-3145374)
 * Status: resolved

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