Merged "WARNING: Currently Create Menu will break all but default menu alias/link pointing to Kunena Menu."

docs.kunena.com/index.php/Creating_customized_menus

Were you trying to create a customised menu?

nope basically all i did was, I was in my control panel, and I clicked that create menu button to see what it was, thinking it was some sort of configuration, and once i clicked that, my sitename.com/forum just stopped working.

I had 2 forum menu items (since it created a new one when i clicked the button) and the only way to fix it was to copy all the menu items from "Kenuna Menu" and move them to the "mainmenu" then delete all the sub-menus which works.

So now ive fixed the main problem which was my www.freaksofanime.com/forum leading to a 404.

But once you view posts or anything, the kenuna menu at the top of the forum itself dissapears, ill give you an example ( www.freaksofanime.com/forum/index ) that has the menu at the top ( www.freaksofanime.com/forum/games ) doesnt have a forum menu. All this trouble just because of me not knowing what that button does.

The reason the menu on the forum itself dissapeared was because I deleted all the subcatergories, when they were deleted the forum menu was also deleted, i would have kept them if my joomla template menu allowed the submenus to appear in a dropdown box or something when i hover over forum, but instead they all become a new item on the menu making my template mess up from too many menu items on the top menu.

Aside from the Kunena template you're using (that I have no familiarity with) - you may need to discuss those issues with the people who designed that template - and the obvious consequence that when you deleted all categories you are basically left with a functionless forum, I decided to play with the scenario you described.

I used my own K 1.6 test site and I clicked the Create Menu Item - "just to see what it did" - and there was no consequence. So I did it again, just to make doubly sure and, nothing ... no extra menus were created and my website was unaffected. Undeterred, I pressed the button 10 more times ... but there was not change. There was no "extra" menu or menu items created.

burnedscott wrote:

I had 2 forum menu items (since it created a new one when i clicked the button) and the only way to fix it was to copy all the menu items from "Kenuna Menu" and move them to the "mainmenu" then delete all the sub-menus which works.

Well, actually, that doesn't work as you can see from the results of your website. As we have been trying to say - and I'll repeat it one more time - if you have Kunena menu problems you need to remove the old menu items that are causing those problems; you need to remove those old items permanently and then use the Kunena Create Menu button.

There is one further point that I would like to add. Although it may seem complicated the way that we've tried to describe the solution to this I-messed-up-my-Kunena-menu-how-do-I-restore-it problem the procedure to fix the problem takes 1 minute. I've actually talked people through this situation and, in less than 5 minutes, they've had their K 1.6. sites working again. It's really not that difficult if you follow the steps that we've described, one step at a time.

I pressed it the first day i used kunena and it did nothing, but a different time i pressed it, and it created the menu item, its a buggy button i guess. I'll ry doing the remove all permanently then creating menu link again but i already tried that and it just made a 404