Menu Items Disappearing

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I’m running WP 3.5.1 and I’ve a menu with about 100 items. When I add new items to the menu older ones disappear.

I’m not running Suhosin or similar stuff. What can be the cause?

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Note: I’m on a dedicated server.

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  1. The following has worked for some users with similar problem:

    Try to increase the value of the max_input_vars variable in php.ini. This variable was introduced in PHP version 5.3.9 and has the default value of 1000.

    You can read more about it in the PHP documentation:

    http://php.net/manual/en/info.configuration.php

    max_input_vars  1000    PHP_INI_PERDIR  Available since PHP 5.3.9.

    How many input variables may be accepted (limit is applied to $_GET,
    $_POST and $_COOKIE superglobal separately). Use of this directive
    mitigates the possibility of denial of service attacks which use hash
    collisions.

    You could try to increase it to 1500 or 2000.

    Estimate:

    Using the data below, we can try to estimate how many POST variables we are sending, given a certain number of menu items, when we press the Save Menu button

    save

    It seems to be:

    "number of POST variables" = 11 * "number of menu items" + 9

    which is equivalent to the line:

    y=11x+9

    Then we can build the following table:

    table

    In your case, we see that if you need to save 100 menu items, you need to send 1109 POST variables, so your max_input_vars must be at least 1109.

    Similarly when we add items to the menu (via Ajax POST)

    add

    we get

    "number of POST variables" = 10 * "number of menu items" + 3

    which is the line:

    y=10x+3

    The corresponding data table is:

    table

    When we add 10 menu items, we send 103 POST variables.

    Data:

    Just to show you the amount of $_POST data when I save my menu with only 5 items:

    Array
(
    [menu-name] => simple_menu
    [save_menu] => Save Menu
    [closedpostboxesnonce] => xxxxxxxxxx
    [meta-box-order-nonce] => xxxxxxxxxx
    [update-nav-menu-nonce] => xxxxxxxxxx
    [_wp_http_referer] => /dev/wp-admin/nav-menus.php
    [action] => update
    [menu] => 58
    [menu-item-title] => Array
        (
            [1135] => home
            [1131] => page1
            [1130] => page2
            [1132] => page3
            [1133] => page4
        )

    [menu-item-attr-title] => Array
        (
            [1135] => 
            [1131] => 
            [1130] => 
            [1132] => 
            [1133] => 
        )

    [menu-item-classes] => Array
        (
            [1135] => 
            [1131] => 
            [1130] => 
            [1132] => 
            [1133] => 
        )

    [menu-item-xfn] => Array
        (
            [1135] => 
            [1131] => 
            [1130] => 
            [1132] => 
            [1133] => 
        )

    [menu-item-description] => Array
        (
            [1135] => 
            [1131] => 
            [1130] => 
            [1132] => 
            [1133] => 
        )

    [menu-item-db-id] => Array
        (
            [1135] => 1135
            [1131] => 1131
            [1130] => 1130
            [1132] => 1132
            [1133] => 1133
        )

    [menu-item-object-id] => Array
        (
            [1135] => 477
            [1131] => 1020
            [1130] => 1028
            [1132] => 791
            [1133] => 603
        )

    [menu-item-object] => Array
        (
            [1135] => page
            [1131] => page
            [1130] => page
            [1132] => page
            [1133] => page
        )

    [menu-item-parent-id] => Array
        (
            [1135] => 0
            [1131] => 0
            [1130] => 1131
            [1132] => 1131
            [1133] => 0
        )

    [menu-item-position] => Array
        (
            [1135] => 1
            [1131] => 2
            [1130] => 3
            [1132] => 4
            [1133] => 5
        )

    [menu-item-type] => Array
        (
            [1135] => post_type
            [1131] => post_type
            [1130] => post_type
            [1132] => post_type
            [1133] => post_type
        )

    [menu-locations] => Array
        (
            [primary] => 0
        )

)

    When I add 3 items to them menu, the POST data is:

    Array
(
    [action] => add-menu-item
    [menu] => 58
    [menu-settings-column-nonce] => xxxxxxxxxx
    [menu-item] => Array
        (
            [-56] => Array
                (
                    [menu-item-object-id] => 1728
                    [menu-item-db-id] => 0
                    [menu-item-object] => page
                    [menu-item-parent-id] => 0
                    [menu-item-type] => post_type
                    [menu-item-title] => Page 1
                    [menu-item-url] => http://example.com/page1/
                    [menu-item-target] => 
                    [menu-item-classes] => 
                    [menu-item-xfn] => 
                )

            [-57] => Array
                (
                    [menu-item-object-id] => 1724
                    [menu-item-db-id] => 0
                    [menu-item-object] => page
                    [menu-item-parent-id] => 0
                    [menu-item-type] => post_type
                    [menu-item-title] => Page 3
                    [menu-item-url] => http://example.com/page2/
                    [menu-item-target] => 
                    [menu-item-classes] => 
                    [menu-item-xfn] => 
                )

            [-59] => Array
                (
                    [menu-item-object-id] => 1658
                    [menu-item-db-id] => 0
                    [menu-item-object] => page
                    [menu-item-parent-id] => 0
                    [menu-item-type] => post_type
                    [menu-item-title] => Page 3
                    [menu-item-url] => http://example.com/page3/
                    [menu-item-target] => 
                    [menu-item-classes] => 
                    [menu-item-xfn] => 
                )

        )

)