How to Fix Custom Menu Item Limits in WordPress

Just a few days ago, one of our users reported an unusual problem. The problem is that he reaches the limit of custom menu items. Any content he saves after reaching the menu item limit will not be saved at all. We've never heard of this issue, so we decided to give it a try on our local installation. More than 200 menu items were created and saved. The effect is very good. Move 100 items to the drop-down list and save them very well. Then we knew it had to do with the server. After further research, it seems that many others have encountered the same problem. After digging deeper, we found a trac ticket ( #14134 ) that highlights this issue. After reading the very, very long tracking tickets, the problem seems to be unsolved, but for those who have this problem, there is a workaround. In this article, we will show you how to fix custom menu item restrictions in WordPress.

To resolve this issue, you need to edit the PHP.ini file. If you are using a dedicated server or a VPS with root access, you should already know what we are talking about. If you are using a shared hosting or don't know where the PHP.ini file is, ask your web hosting provider to do this for you.

You need to ask them to set the following values ​​in the PHP.ini configuration:

 suhosin.post.max_vars = 5000suhosin.request.max_vars = 5000

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Another user, “ronnieg,” released a solution for his large (450+ pages and growing) real estate websites and menus. You can follow up by reading his reply. (Note: We haven't tried this yet)

Problem description

This question is not entirely based on WordPress, because different people see different restrictions (some say 16, others say 50, as you know, we have as much as 200, but we don't see any restrictions). In theory, WordPress doesn't limit the number of menus you can have. Your web hosting server is. Suhosin has a limit on the POST maximum variable, which limits the large number of entries saved. Nacin replied in the trac ticket that this is not a bug, but an enhancement. The core team has to find a way to resolve server restrictions and find a better way to save menu items, so you won't see any custom menu restrictions regardless of your server configuration. Easy to say but hard to do

WordPress is an open source (voluntary) project and the core team goes to great lengths to improve it every day. This will be fixed, but the timeline has not been defined as it says "future version".

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