Menu editor times out or 504s with plugin active
Opening Appearance > Menus in the admin hangs or times out with 504 or 522 errors while the plugin is active.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
7 public reports · first reported 28 August 2023 · last reported 18 November 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners using the If Menu plugin report that the WordPress menu editor under Appearance then Menus becomes extremely slow, hangs, or fails with gateway timeout errors such as 504 and 522.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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