[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 ronnieg):

 Here is the work-around that is working great for me and my large (450+
 pages and growing) real estate site and menus:
 - Installed Alex Mills "Add Descendants As Submenu Items" plugin. This
 plugin minimizes WP custom menu item counts significantly when the pages /
 posts are well organized by assigning assigned appropriate parent/child
 relationships and putting child pages in the same order as you want them
 to show in the menus.
 - Installed "CMS Tree Page View" plugin to better show and organize
 (drag/drop) complex parent/child page relationships, especially on larger
 sites like mine with 450+ static pages.
 - Installed "Widget Logic" plugin to be able to manage which pages have
 sidebar sub-menu widgets.
 - In my theme's functions.php, installed a special function I found
 somewhere: is_child_of('postid').
 - Built smaller sub-menus (~20) for sidebars, for key pages that have lots
 of additional child/grandchild pages, and then used Widget Logic and the
 is_child_of function to have those menu widgets appear only on the
 appropriate parent and sub-pages pages, not in the top menu.

 FYI for the other large RE site webmaster who posted to in this thread:
 IMO, putting absolutely  everything in the top menu makes the top menu too
 large to effectively manage, increases page load time, and may be a major
 SEO problem because of so many links. My top menu only has about 60 links,
 and with the sidebar sub-menus controlled by Widget Logic, no page ever
 has more than about 120 on-page internal links.

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