[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14134: Menus item are limited to 16 item and will not save more than that

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#14134: Menus item are limited to 16 item and will not save more than that
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 Reporter:  jaanfx        |       Owner:  filosofo
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  reviewing
 Priority:  high          |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Menus         |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  major         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |
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Comment (by ianboo):

 One reason for not fixing this for two years may be there is no easy
 solution?!

 I am now rather unsure what the problem is:
 a. Is it this unbelievable amount of variables getting posted?
 b. Is it the resulting array getting processed?

 Solutions at hand:
 1. Try to submit just the difference (will fix a., but may increase b.),
 not easy as a no-js version is hard to do
 2. Paginate menus, not that elegant for UX
 3. Make menus able to include other menus (See
 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17031#comment:9)

 So 3. as provided by ruud in 17031 is clearly a hack, but we could
 institutionalize it and provide another menu-item named "embed menu",
 similar to the individual menu widget.

 This would make it possible to simply break down menus in smaller chunks,
 not only circumventing the max_post_vars problem, but also the increased
 processing time (which clearly occurs, at least on my machine).

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134#comment:68>
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