Title: Duplicate menu items
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Duplicate menu items

 *  [darwinize](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darwinize/)
 * (@darwinize)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-menu-items-1/)
 * I created a page, made it a child of a main menu item:
 * [http://americachinabridge.com/en/zhou-enlai-2/mission/](http://americachinabridge.com/en/zhou-enlai-2/mission/)
   It showed up as expected as a sub-item in the main menu.
 * Decided not to use that item, deleted it and emptied the trash. It disappeared
   from the menu.
 * A few days later I decided to add the same material again, under the same name.
   WP would not let me do it, assigned it a different name:
 * [http://americachinabridge.com/en/zhou-enlai-2/mission-2/](http://americachinabridge.com/en/zhou-enlai-2/mission-2/)
 * I thought fine, some remnant of the old name must lie in the SQL table.
 * The old item revived itself under its original name, and inserted itself into
   the menu alongside the new one.
 * Now I have duplicate menu items. I want to get rid of one of them but cannot.
 * See for yourself:
 * [http://americachinabridge.com/en/](http://americachinabridge.com/en/)
 * Hover over the entry on rthe far right, Zhou Enlai Peace Institute — you’ll see
   two Mission items.
 * Using the Atahualpa theme. Also using WPML for corresponding Chinese content,
   and — you’ll love this — the problem does not appear on the Chinese side. No 
   duplicate item there.
 * Help!

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 *  [christogeretz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christogeretz/)
 * (@christogeretz)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-menu-items-1/#post-2155152)
 * DO a ‘quick edit’ on page called “mission” – change its name to “Test” and the
   slug to “test” .. and then delete it.
 * Then do a quick edit on “mission-2” – change it’s name to Mission and it’s slug
   to mission.
 * Works?
 *  Thread Starter [darwinize](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darwinize/)
 * (@darwinize)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-menu-items-1/#post-2155200)
 * This works, thank you so much! I added a final srtep to your procedure, which
   is to delete the “Test” page. Didn’t work till I did that.
 * Go back to [http://americachinabridge.com/en/](http://americachinabridge.com/en/)
   and see.
 * I wish I understood why it works.
 * And why WP itself cannot handle simply deleting a duplicate menu item, without
   having to fake it out with your backdoor technique.
 * This would appear to be — dare I say it — a bug?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [darwinize](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darwinize/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-menu-items-1/#post-2155200)
 * Status: not resolved

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