[Guilouz]

When you create 8 custom widgets from a custom menu item, you cannot move down from the first one, it just wont allow it stopping you from using the other 7.

This is version 2.7.1 on RPi3 running Leia

Just test to create a new item with 8 widgets, no problem :

would it make a difference if you're linking to a directory, not a single file and does order acs,desc make a difference there?

Not understand what you mean...