Problem post 2.03 upgrade

If you are getting a message telling you that you don’t have permission to do something, then it’s a permissions issue. WordPress has soles (administrator, editor, author, etc) and those roles have capabilities (edit_posts, edit_links, etc). If it says you can’t do something than your user must belong to a role that lacks the capability.

You can try the Role Manager plugin to add the necessary capabilities to your user… assuming that your user can edit_users

Some people have found that the force upgrade script I wrote fixes some permissions issues.

Thanks Mark. I added the Role Manager plugin and it solved the problem. I’m now able to delete things I wasn’t before.

And I just wanted to add that I’m the owner and sole admin and user on my wordpress. I was able to do everything before, but after the upgrade that’s when the “you don’t have permission” errors started even though my user profile said I was the admin. Thanks for your help!

I am having this same problem.
added the tune-up
added the role manager
still no luck

I hav just installed a fresh installation of 2.03.
So I didnt do the force-upgrade. should I try it anyways?

Oh and I am admin, am the only user so I should be right.

markjaquith: that force upgrade thing did the trick for me! woo, thanks! ??

I first ran into this issue after upgrading from 2.0.x (either 2.0.1 or 2.0.2) to 2.0.4. All I had to do to solve this issue was delete the browser cookies from my site and www.ads-software.com, empty my browser cache, close the browser, relaunch and log back in to my wp-admin

monfresh’s answer is what finally worked for me… though I had tried the forced upgrade, the tuneup and the role manager plugin.

Thanks monfresh…

My install of 2.0.3 was a new one via Fantastico on CPanel. I’m getting the same thing about not being able to delete posts.

I’ve tried the Tune-Up plugin, the Role Manager plugin, deleting cookies etc as suggested by monfresh, and nothing works – I *still* can’t delete my own admin posts.

There are no other users but me as Admin.

I haven’t tried the forced upgrade as I didn’t upgrade – am I right in thinking it’s only for upgrades?

Is there any other way around this problem? <tearing my hair out…>

OK, I found a way to do it, not that it resolves it as such, but it’s a way. If I go to edit a post, I can delete it with success from within the post itself. I guess it’ll have to do for now till they find a fix ??

I can confirm this is still happening, 2.1.2 upgrade from 2.1alpha3. Tried the force-upgrade, deleting cache and cookies, deactivated all plugins.

stingray55’s discovery worked as well, however can not delete from the manage posts page.