Menu exports contain pages instead of menu structure
The menu export produces a flat list of pages and posts instead of the menu's real structure, so menus import as pages or lose their hierarchy and links.
6 public reports · first reported 16 November 2017 · last reported 10 September 2021
What's going wrong
Site owners using this menu export plugin report that the XML file it produces contains ordinary pages and posts rather than the navigation menu structure they need. Some find nav menus come back as pages after import, and others say the menu hierarchy and menu item links are lost. The result is a menu migration that has to be rebuilt by hand. Reporters span staging-to-production moves and demo site setups. A dependable menu-only export and import tool, one that keeps hierarchy and links, would solve this for agencies and developers.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
Export WordPress Menus.
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Who has this problem
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