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How to remove all menu items in WordPress admin panel

It often happens that you need to delete all the menu items. This is easy to do using the single-item deletion method, but how to solve the problem if there are 100 menu items? Yes, there are many sites with long lists of directories/categories and huge navigation.

Another case: you bought a template, imported demo data and got a long menu that needs to be deleted. There are two easy ways to do this.

Option 1: Create a new menu and remove the old one

An obvious option, but not everyone comes to it. You simply create a new menu in the WordPress admin under Appearance > Menu > Create New Menu

After creating the menu at the bottom, you can choose a position to display it on the site (Primary Menu, Top Menu, Footer Menu etc.), then go to the old menu with a lot of menu items and delete it.

Option 2: Bulk Remove WordPress Menu Items Using a Plugin

This option is suitable if your site is the site where a large structure is used, and you periodically need to clean the menu from unused sections.

The plugin WP Edit Menu can help solve this problem.
Once installed, when editing a menu, you will have the ability to multiselect to remove a lot of menu items in the WordPress admin panel.

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Hi there! My name is Iryna, I am a web developer from Ukraine. While working on freelance projects I often face different technical issues and in this blog I publish articles on how to solve them. I am also interested in digital drawing and in this blog you will find brief tutorials that helped me and hopefully can help you as well.

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