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I am going through the process of upgrading Joomla to 3.x and the Menu is no longer working on my upgrade site.  When I inspect the source using Chrome's Developer Tools, the s5_menu_wrap div is empty.  The original, and working site is http://www.lynxcyberpro.com/  and the non-working site is http://104.239.141.20

Hello,

Did you completely reinstall the template? You cannot use an existing 2.5 template on a 3.X site. No 2.5 products work in 3.X. You must completely uninstall the template and install it with the 3.X compatible version of the template, along with all extensions.

Hello,

In the Template Manager under the Menu Tab try changing the default Menu option to a different menu and hit save. After that you can change it back to your default menu to see if the new menu updates properly.

mikek - Our site was built by a consultant a few years back that we no longer do business with.  It appears that he customized the cleanout template for our site and as such, there have been numerous changes to the default template to apply our custom look and feel.  A reinstall of the template is not a simple solution by any means.  Can you instruct me as to what has changed in that template between 2.5 and 3.x so I can apply the changes directly?

mikenicoll - I do not see a Menu tab when I go to the Template Manager.  My only options are Styles and Templates.

Hello,

I'm sorry it's not as simple as just a few changes between the template versions, there are a lot difference. The introduction of Bootstrap caused need for a lot of modifications to files, like the template.css, com_content.css and the index.php file itself. Those three files contain the bulk of the coding for a template and each has significant changes between a 2.5 and 3.X template.

Any changes your programmer made should have been done in custom.css only, so they would carry over to newer versions. If they have modified the template files themselves, that's not something we can support. Our support is for the core product itself.

After help from jonahh via a different post, I was successful getting it to work by following these instructions...

Then install fresh copy for J3.0.  And take your CSS files for template.css and flex menu.css and your index.php file and then overwrite the ones in the new version of the template you just installed.  This might be enough to get it all working.

Hello,

Alright glad you got it sorted!