Permissions Issues With Updating and Widgets Menu

  • Resolved goldferris

    (@goldferris)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    Hi!

    I’ve had my self-hosted WordPress blog (MakeupFiles.com) for over 3 years now. All of a sudden (I assume it happened after an update), WordPress doesn’t seem to think I have authority to make big changes.

    – Now, instead of giving me an “update automatically” link at the top of the admin for the new 3.2 update, it says “Please notify the site administrator.”

    – My Widgets menu has disappeared from the sidebar. I assume it’s also a permissions issue. I followed steps from other threads saying to change edit_theme to switch_theme in the functions file, but that didn’t get my Widgets menu back.

    For reference, I only have one user for my blog–Me-and it’s the default “admin” login username. None of that has changed.

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  • Thread Starter goldferris

    (@goldferris)

    I don’t know how that would matter (especially since I have two other blogs without this problem), but I tried it anyway.

    It still had the same problem in Internet Explorer as it does in Firefox.

    Thanks, though!

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    Browsers look at code in slightly different ways.

    Where you checked the user capabilities, under that is user levels. It should be a 10 afaik so check that.

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    Since you can login and for the most part function why not do a manual upgrade. That should fix and problems that have developed in the backend since you last upgraded.

    Thread Starter goldferris

    (@goldferris)

    I looked for user levels under usermeta and couldn’t find it, so I looked it up and found that they phased out user levels at WP 2.0.

    I decided to manually upgrade. I’d been avoiding that because I thought it might make my problem worse.

    While it did update wordpress, it didn’t fix the permissions. I still can’t access widgets, for example. Even though I’m an admin, it’s not letting me act like one.

    My problem isn’t solved.

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    they phased out user levels at WP 2.0.

    Guess that tells you how old my database is.

    I use this plugin, https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/ to change roles. You could try this to see if it will change your role.

    thesm2

    (@thesm2)

    i think I had a very similar problem for months. Struggled along without being able to create users of update WP, but could post and some other admin tasks.

    I found this thread a way to my solution

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/moving-wordpress-admin-issue-help-please

    just go to the wp-options table…find the option name ‘wp_user_roles’ and paste in the new code used by user ODGraphics.

    see if that works?

    Thread Starter goldferris

    (@goldferris)

    YAY!!!! Thank you so much, thesm2! That fixed it! Finally!

    I’m going to mark this one as Resolved. ??

    cool ?? thanks goldferris and thesm2

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