I would love to be able to mass-delete menu links. As it is now, you have to select the "delete" action for each link. This loads another page for confirmation purposes. That is so tedious,
In Drupal-land, https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_editor seems to allow that. For D8, there's also https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_delete:

(there's a request to add this to D9 core: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2772961)
https://www.drupal.org/project/delete_menu_options is another interesting module:

Provides extra options when deleting a menu item. You can choose to delete child menu items and decide if the linking nodes should be deleted as well.
~~PS: While at it, can we also move the confirmation form to a modal?~~ (moved to a separate issue: #769)
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@yorkshirepudding, In the end I fixed it by deleting the config/active folder contents, copying the config/staging/ files into config/active, importing the database again and clearing the caches...
Importing the staged config throws an error: another field with the same name already exists
Thanks, I have to go out now, I will try later on and report back
Importing the staged config throws an error: another field with the same name already exists
Hi Francis. Yes, what config do you have in staging for it? You might have configs like: field.field.field_video_embed field.instance.node.page....
Importing the staged config throws an error: another field with the same name already exists