Lost ability to customize top menu in Twenty Fourteen layout.

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  charliebast · Member · May 22, 2017 at 5:44 pm

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  Hi all, up until a few minutes ago, I was able to customize the menu at the top of my blog. Now it only lets me customize the ‘connect’ (social media) menu, which I am not using at all. In the customizing->menus section, it does not recognize that the ‘pages’ menu exists at all. It does not show up as an option like it did before. I hope this is a temporary glitch, because now my pages are showing up out of order and I can’t fix it.

  Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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  charliebast · Member · May 23, 2017 at 1:29 am

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  So I found a workaround of creating a completely new menu in place of the other one. As long as this one doesn’t disappear, it should work. I don’t know what happened to the other one, but the new menu overrode it. Is there a way to at least report this glitch? The menu disappeared in the back end but was still showing up user side. I hope it doesn’t happen again. It looks like at least on other person using Twenty Fourteen had a problem customizing their menu also.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 23, 2017 at 8:14 am

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  @charliebast,

  The default pages, on a theme that has one, never appears among the custom menus. The ways that a default pages menu, when displayed, can be modified include the following:
  1. create a page.
  2. delete a page.
  3. edit a page title.

  If you assign a custom menu as your top primary menu, then it will replace the default pages menu above the header image.

  I hope this is a temporary glitch, because now my pages are showing up out of order and I can’t fix it.

  The order of items in a custom menu is much easier to change than the order of items in the default pages menu. See the Organize your menu section of the custom menus support page.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 23, 2017 at 9:50 am

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  Correction:

  “The default pages menu, on a theme that has one…”

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  charliebast · Member · May 23, 2017 at 12:53 pm

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  Thanks, @musicdoc1, but I was able to change the order of the page titles on my default page menu when I created the blog. I found myself looking for a customization window that had literally disappeared the next day. If it was never supposed to be that way, it shouldn’t have started out that way.

  I do appreciate the info. I’ll consider the issue resolved.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 23, 2017 at 4:33 pm

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  @charliebast,

  You’re welcome.

  but I was able to change the order of the page titles on my default page menu when I created the blog.

  The nomenclature is a bit tricky. The Twenty Fourteen theme displayed a custom menu by default in my tests, but that menu isn’t the “default pages menu.” What I refer to as the “default pages menu” is the menu that will appear on some themes, including Twenty Fourteen, when no custom menu is assigned.

  You might have switched to the default pages menu accidentally by unchecking a box at Customize > Menus > Primary (or whatever the menu was called) > Display location. Alternatively, you might have accidentally deleted the Primary (custom) menu at Customize > Menus > Menu name > Delete Menu (red link).

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 23, 2017 at 4:37 pm

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  By the phrase “when no custom menu is assigned” I mean “when no custom menu is displayed” in the “Top primary menu” display location.