Lost TablePress Menu entry

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

I’m not sure what happened there, but resetting the capabilities should do the trick.
To do that, go to https://your-site.com/wp-admin/options.php in the browser. You should then see the list of “WordPress Options” with input fields to change them. (This is a powerful screen in WordPress, so be careful.)
Scroll down to the “tablepress_plugin_options” option. In that text field (be very careful), change the number after “plugin_options_db_version” to a 0 (it should be 32 right now, I think). Then save the changes.
That will reset some stuff inside TablePress internally and should also re-add the capabilities, so that you can then see the TablePress entry in the admin menu.

Regards,
Tobias

Hello Tobias,

Thank you for your fast reply. I’m pretty sure, that the issue is not based on your plugin ?? As I mentioned, the backend has become pretty messy due to lots of plugins.

Unfortunately, I’m out of office now and can test this only on next Wednesday, since you wrote to be careful with this.

So, please give me some time to Wednesday afternoon, and I will definetly check your approach.

Thank you very much for the detailed instructions on how to do this.
Keep up the great work, TP is one of the best plugins ever.

Best Regards

Tobias ??

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Please let me know if it worked!

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,
The same happened to me and following this instrucions worked just right!
Thank you Tobias.

WordPress 4.5
TablePress 1.7

Hi,

great! Thanks for the update. Good to hear that this helped!

Best wishes,
Tobias

Hi again,

well, it’s nice to hear that this solution worked for somebody else.

I’m running 11 WP sites for our company, and I’m a bit in trouble with the latest WP 4.5 update which broke a couple of other things.

Unfortunately, Tobias’ proposal to solve this did NOT work for me.

I’m still unable to find the TablePress Menu Point and can’t access it via the direct URL.

Yes, the value was 32 and I have changed it to 0 – no effect.

Any ideas or other options to approach this?

https://sandbox.reifengundlach.de/screenshots/TablePressAccess1.jpg
https://sandbox.reifengundlach.de/screenshots/MyAccessRights.jpg

Thanks for help!

Hi Clickadelic,

apparently, you are using a plugin to manage the WordPress roles and capabilities. Unfortunately, those sometimes break some plugin’s capabilities. To fix this, you will have to manually add the TablePress capabilities to the desired user roles again. For a list, please see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/tablepress-admin-capabilites-problems?replies=8#post-3931888

Regards,
Tobias

Thank you for your answer.

Unfortunately, the capabilites mentioned in the forumpost
are not showing up on my list.

Yes, I have tried a couple of plugins to manipulate
capabilites, but the only powerful and reliable one
is members, as far as I can tell.

I allowed myself to write you an e-mail with access
data and a commercial support offer.

Hope to hear from you soon, hopefully I can mark
this thread as resolved somewhen.

Thanks a lot

Best Regards

Tobias

Hi,

as mentioned in my email, just add the capabilities by typing them in. They simply don’t show up in the list because WordPress does not know about them.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi again,

to add the capabilites via “Members” plugin did not work.

When I entered the edit table option, I was able to see the table with the ID 1 once.
As soon as I added another capabilty in order to add capabilities, this option was gone again, and I get the old error mentioned above.

You do not have suffient access rights…

Unfortunately, this matter is getting urgend by the end of the week!

Please consider my offer from my e-mail – otherwise I will have to look for another solution in order to change the data, which is displayed in the tables.

Thank you for any further approach on how to solve this.

Hi,

ok, I now logged in and experienced the same issue. For some reason, Members would go back to the original capabilities, without saving the new ones…

I then re-added the TablePress capabilities in a different way (directly through PHP code), which seems to have worked. ??
You should be able to use TablePress again now.

Regards,
Tobias

You are awesome! Period!

I was just wondering, because I have logged in 1 minute ago.

Donation will follow for sure!

Thank you Tobias, thank you very much!

Hi,

no problem, you are very welcome! ?? Good to hear that this helped!
And thanks for wanting to donate, I really appreciate it!

Best wishes,
Tobias