There are a lot of plug-ins around for building menus on the front end, but why are they so impossible to add to on the back end (Appearance > Menus). I have a very content-heavy website, with no less than 1300 pages under one custom post type – two for each US state for each year 2010-2023. I want to be able to search “Miss [year]” and “Teen [year]” to pull up all the profiles for each set, but the search function only gives me 10 at a time. It would be annoying but somewhat manageable if it then cleared the pages that are also included in the menu and showed me the next 10, but it shows me the exact same ones. Adding all 51 means searching strings of letters until I get all 51 added. And then sorting them alphabetical by title has to be done manually rather than there being a handy sort button. For the number of menus I’m creating, this is a crazy waste of my time. Yet there doesn’t seem to be any better way. Has anyone else faced the same issues?
I’m kind of surprised I can’t find more people screaming about it but maybe it’s just because it’s unusual to have as many pages as I do?
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Sounds like the job for a custom website with a database to me. 1300 pages? That should be one page with some sql behind it. Right tools for the right job.