Title: 'Current root item' bug or behavior?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# 'Current root item' bug or behavior?

 *  Resolved [Cameron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cameron-macintosh/)
 * (@cameron-macintosh)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/current-root-item-bug-or-behavior/)
 * I noticed some odd behavior around using the “Children of current root item” 
   filter. In my main nav menu, I have 4 top level menu items with various numbers
   of sub pages (menu contains only standard WP pages at this point). I use this
   same menu within a Custom Menu Wizard widget. I can configure it so the root/
   top level menu item is included in my widget/sidebar output, but the item links
   back to my home page and not the page.
 * None of the Fallback or Output options seem to do this correctly. This does not
   seem like correct behavior, but there are so many settings to this plugin that
   I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something obvious or obscure. Is this 
   really a bug?
 * Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-menu-wizard/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-menu-wizard/)

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 *  Plugin Author [wizzud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wizzud/)
 * (@wizzud)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/current-root-item-bug-or-behavior/#post-4184192)
 * Hmm … well I sincerely hope it’s not a bug, because at the moment I can’t replicate
   it. And I agree that changing the target of the item links is definitely not 
   correct behaviour!
 * May I ask you to perform a couple of small experiments for me?
 * 1. Could you create an instance of WordPress’s own Custom Menu widget, and give
   it the same menu that you have configured for CMW, please? The Custom Menu widget
   should reproduce the entire menu, versus CMW’s subset, and if you could just 
   compare the navigation of the “faulty” item on CMW with the same item on the 
   Custom Menu widget’s output I would be grateful?
 * 2. If the navigation of the equivalent items (CMW vs. Custom Menu widget) doesn’t
   match, could you create a brand new instance of CMW and simply save it “as is”,
   ie. set to Show All, from level 1 for unlimited depth. As with the Custom Menu
   widget, you should get the entire menu from this new CMW instance, so could you
   just check the navigation of the equivalent problem item again for me please?
 * Many thanks for the assistance, I really appreciate it (and I apologise for needing
   to ask for it).
 *  Thread Starter [Cameron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cameron-macintosh/)
 * (@cameron-macintosh)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/current-root-item-bug-or-behavior/#post-4184240)
 * Thank you for your quick reply.
 * Late yesterday, I discovered an issue with the permalink on the page that was
   giving me problems. I ended up deleting and recreating that page and the plugin
   works as I expect it to. Not sure how that page ended up with the home page as
   its permalink, but mystery solved.
 *  Plugin Author [wizzud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wizzud/)
 * (@wizzud)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/current-root-item-bug-or-behavior/#post-4184245)
 * Good, I’m glad you’re sorted. Thanks for letting me know.

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