Wordpress removes my menu items if above the Limit of 90 menu items -

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I want to add more item in my menu I've a menu that contains at least 90 item in wordPress menus (administration), I want to add more and I found that others are removed automatically. Any solution?

Accepted Answer

In most likelihood ( but not 100% ) , This is a PHP limit, not WP.

You can verify / configure it by looking at your php.ini.

Basically, the problem is `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 should try to increase it to `1500` or even `2000`.

Further explanation : ( For those who want to understand more )

As you can see in the above php doc link, This is basically a limit applied to `$_GET`, `$_POST` and `$_COOKIE` superglobal separately.

Every time you click the `save menu` button in wordPress, you basically sending a lot of `POST` variables estimated by this formula :

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

So you can easily understand that when you add `90` menu items you are actually sending

```
( 11*90 )  + 9 = 999
```

that is too close to your default limit of `1000` and any further `POST` item will tip the limit ..

Similarly , When you add it via `POST Ajax` ( add menu by drag and drop ) the formula is a bit different - but the concept is the same ..

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

So just calculate your limit - and increase accordingly ( with ratio and a bit of safety margin.. just putting `10,0000` might work but it is not very logic .. )

Some further tech detail can be found here or here

PS :

A bit of googling will also find a plugin to help you with a notification when you arrive to that limit.

Wordpress removes my menu items if above the Limit of 90 menu items -

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