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Primary & top menus not updating?

Ultra Theme started by sera.4400 Oct 6, 2016 17 replies
sera.4400 Oct 6, 2016 · 11:22 pm #5056

Hi, all–

So I’m currently constructing/customizing this site via Ultra Premium, but have been encountering a number of problems with the site’s menus since I first began. The most worrisome is this: when I make *any* changes to either menu items or menu locations, they don’t seem to update on the actual site at all. For example, at the moment, I’ve repeatedly removed my “main toolbar” (and all other menus) from all 4 possible locations — but there are still 10 pages, some of which were NEVER menu items at all (??), displayed in fragments across my header. They don’t show up in the live “customizer” window, but they’re there whenever I actually visit the site.

Does anyone know what’s going wrong here, and/or how to fix it? The site really needs to be live quite soon, so any help would be **very** much appreciated!!!

[Also, here’s another related (but slightly less urgent) question. One consistent problem with the primary menu is that, because I’m using a full-width site header, the menu items are either scrambled or themselves scramble the header background. Is there any way to edit the CSS stylesheet so that the menu is *only* a vertical dropdown, rather than horizontally displayed? I’m trying to work around this by changing all the menu items to attributes of an empty parent page, simply entitled “Main Menu.” But I’m not sure if this will actually work, especially because my changes aren’t showing up at all right now (see above).]

Thanks so much in advance!

-S

sera.4400 Mar 7, 2017 · 10:25 pm #6016

I’m so, so sorry, Andrew!! I wasn’t alerted by email when you responded here, for some reason, and have been incredibly busy in the last few weeks. Anyway, I’ve now (finally) taken a look at the website, and all looks *exactly* as it should be. Thanks so much for your marvelous help!

Just one last question, though: would my re-installing a child theme now counteract your changes to the header/top menu? If so, how do you suggest I ensure that your styling is preserved? I ask because I’m going to have to transfer the website to another admin soon, and worry that they’ll update either WordPress or the current theme without realizing that, in doing so, all prior CSS edits might be lost.

Anyway, apologies again for the radio silence, and thanks (again) for your patience,
S

Andrew Misplon Puro Mar 8, 2017 · 3:14 pm #6019

Super, glad it’s looking good.

It looks like you have Custom CSS split between the child theme stylesheet and Appearance > Custom CSS. You should also check Customize > Additional CSS to see if there is any Custom CSS stored there. All three locations, the child theme CSS file, Custom CSS and Additional CSS are all update safe.

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