Title: When optimizing CSS code, my main page menu ‘breaks’
Last modified: May 14, 2017

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# When optimizing CSS code, my main page menu ‘breaks’

 *  [sillyme727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillyme727/)
 * (@sillyme727)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-optimizing-css-code-my-main-page-menu-breaks/)
 * Hi!
    I absolutely adore your plugin and commend you for maintaining it so well
   and being so dedicated to supporting it. I recently installed it and today I 
   noticed that when I activate the ‘optimize CSS code’ option, my main menu and
   header are displayed in that simple old html way (I am no pro, please excuse 
   my lack of developer lingo ;)). Here is a screen shot: [https://flic.kr/p/UAacPe](https://flic.kr/p/UAacPe)
   My website is samidolls.com Any help/ advice is appreciated, thank you.
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [sillyme727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillyme727/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-optimizing-css-code-my-main-page-menu-breaks/#post-9130290)
 * hi [@sillyme727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillyme727/); I would love
   to help you out here, but I would need to _see_ this to be able to understand
   what is going on. do you have a non-production site where we could test this?
 * frank
 *  Thread Starter [sillyme727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillyme727/)
 * (@sillyme727)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-optimizing-css-code-my-main-page-menu-breaks/#post-9131306)
 * Hi Frank!
    Thank you so much for your response. I am too coding illiterate to
   have a non-production site. If I can learn how to set that up, I would be more
   than happy to test it. I have Filezilla set up etc. Can I do it there somehow?
   Please excuse my amateurism.
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-optimizing-css-code-my-main-page-menu-breaks/#post-9131429)
 * Best would be to ask your hoster for specific information, but a quick web-search
   turned up these results for me;
    * [http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/wordpress/duplicate-wordpress-site-for-testing](http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/wordpress/duplicate-wordpress-site-for-testing)*
   [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAchBxdWPo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqAchBxdWPo)*
   [https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/install-wordpress-subdirectory/](https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/install-wordpress-subdirectory/)
 *  Thread Starter [sillyme727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillyme727/)
 * (@sillyme727)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-optimizing-css-code-my-main-page-menu-breaks/#post-9136763)
 * Thank you so much, this helps a lot. I am in the process of creating this staging
   site and my sql database is too large (63M) to import it into phpMyAdmin, so 
   I am trying to figure out a way to follow the inmotion hosting tutorial anyway.
   I tried to use bigdump and followed a tutorial on that, but I could not do the
   last step for some reason. I’ll figure it out and comment here when it’s done.
   Thank you.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years ago by [sillyme727](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillyme727/).

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