UberMenu Slow; Menu Item Limit

[WPDave]

I’ve been trying to implement an UberMenu for the first time and I’m having lots of problems. The first problem is that it is terribly slow. Often, when in Appearance --> Menus when I click (e.g., Up or Down a Level) there is a delay of a minute or more.

Now, as I’ve been adding pages I’m getting a warning:

I don’t have a huge number of pages (less than 50). I’m not sure what this means but it seems to be saying that I can add no more than 7 additional menu items.

Between the nearly unbearable slowness and now the limitations I’m seeing UberMenu is looking to be just about unusable.

Am I missing something?
David Salahi

[marc_a]

Hey David,

Thanks for reaching out!

I highly suggest to reach out your hosting provider and then show them the screenshot so that they can increase the max_input_vars on your server. Once the max_input_vars, you can use the ubermenu properly.

Hope that helps.

[WPDave]

I increased the max_input_vars setting from 1000 to 1500 and that did make the Menu Item Limit Warning go away. However, editing the UberMenu is still very slow (30+ sec. to refresh the Appearance --> Menus page). E.g., refresh the page and then hover the mouse over any of the menu items. Eventually, it will display the little UberMenu icon over the menu item or display the 4-way arrow cursor when hovering the mouse over a menu item. But there’s a long delay.

I don’t usually see such sluggish behavior when editing a menu. Is there something else I should be doing to improve performance?

[ruenel]

Hello @WPDave,

How many menu items you are trying to display in Appearance > Menus? If you have more than 50 menu items, it would just mean that your server is loading it slowly. This is also to prevent from getting timed out. You may need to ask for further assistance from your hosting provider as to what can be done to improve the loading speed.

Thank you for your understanding.