Manual update of WP 2.9.2 to 3.1 – Admin Sidebar menu is gone

  • Resolved johnberg

    (@johnberg)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Support,

    After installing version 3.1 my wp admin sidebar panel is not showing on the admin page. Only dashboard and profile is showing in the sidebar
    I took a screenshot so you can see better what I mean
    https://bit.ly/ib3QZ6

    This is what I have tried so far to resolve it.
    Renamed theme to ‘twentyten’ theme to see if my theme caused any trouble.
    – No luck so far

    Disabled all my plugins to check if they caused any problems
    – Still no luck

    Before this I had to reconnect the database and change the prefix in the table names because the updated made new tables with different prefix. I don’t know if this got something to do with it, but I think it’s good to mention it anyway.

    Does support have any solution to this or has anyone else had this problem?

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  • Try re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress.

    Thread Starter johnberg

    (@johnberg)

    I just did that with version 3.1 and i still have the same problem ??

    Please try again.

    Thread Starter johnberg

    (@johnberg)

    Why? I just did. Why do I need to do it again?

    Thread Starter johnberg

    (@johnberg)

    Anyone else who have a solution to this? How about you guys at support?

    There is no “support”. There is only this forum staffed by volunteers.

    Looks like you logged in as user not as admin

    Thread Starter johnberg

    (@johnberg)

    Ok, I understand, I thought it was a support team.

    govpatel: I tried to reset the password phpMyAdmin but I think that is not the right way to go since nothing changed. Is it a way to change it from user to admin?

    in phpmyadmin check what id no. is usually 1 for admin

    and check _usermeta table and look at id 1 and see if you have
    this in table 8

    8 1 wp_1_capabilities a:13:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;s:11:”M_add_lev…

    Thread Starter johnberg

    (@johnberg)

    It’s seems to be in different order so I’ll show you the whole table. I highlighted row 8.

    umeta_id user_id meta_key meta_value
    1 1 nickname admin
    2 1 rich_editing true
    3 1 comment_shortcuts false
    4 1 admin_color fresh
    5 1 wp_capabilities a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}
    6 1 wp_user_level 10
    7 1 wp_autosave_draft_ids a:12:{i:-1229019012;i:3;i:-1249780357;i:7;i:-12501…
    8 1 closedpostboxes_dashboard a:0:{}
    9 1 metaboxhidden_dashboard a:0:{}
    10 1 wp_usersettings editor=tinymce&hidetb=1&widgets_access=off
    11 1 wp_usersettingstime 1282053675
    13 1 plugins_last_view all
    14 1 wp_capabilities a:1:{s:10:”subscriber”;s:1:”1″;}
    15 1 wp_user-settings m0=o
    16 1 wp_user-settings-time 1300235887
    17 1 first_name
    18 1 last_name
    19 1 description
    20 1 use_ssl 0
    21 1 show_admin_bar_front true
    22 1 show_admin_bar_admin true
    23 1 aim
    24 1 yim
    25 1 jabber
    26 1 meta-box-order_dashboard a:4:{s:6:”normal”;s:37:”dashboard_primary,dashboar…
    27 1 screen_layout_dashboard 2

    5 1 wp_capabilities a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

    looks like you have admin capability

    Did you log in with same id

    Thread Starter johnberg

    (@johnberg)

    Yes, I log in with the same ID and I even reset the password to see if that worked.

    Is it better just to install everything again via cpanel and then redirect to my current database?

    You will still have same problem as your log in info is saved on database so reinstalling is not the answer

    How did you reset your password?

    Thread Starter johnberg

    (@johnberg)

    I resest it in myPhpAdmin like this way: https://www.it-echo.com/2008/12/16/how-to-change-and-recover-wordpress-admin-wp-admin-password-from-phpmyadmin.html

    If you done what it says in article then you should not have problem logging in.I am puzzled

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