TablePress not showing up in dashboard

After purging cache, I still have no TablePress menu choice in any menu and sub-menu.

Hi Ted,

that’s strange. Are you logged-in as an Administrator? For that role, you should see the menu entry. For the other “User Roles” that you have on the site, you’ll need to add the relevant capabilities using the “Capability Manager” plugin that you have, first. (All TablePress capabilities start with TablePress, but regular users should not get all of them, but those that are necessary for them.)

Regards,
Tobias

Ah, ha! You didn’t understand me when a asked what happened to the TablePress toolbar when I uploaded to WP 3.9. You asked me to email you, but I can not find your email address in you directions. Can’t you just post it and save me some trouble? I found and captured an image of the toolbar in an old website I have that I hadn’t upgraded to WP 3.9. I’d like to send you the image so you can tell me how I can get it the toolbar back. The new WP table doo-hickey is cumbersome to work with.
Here’s a link to the image: https://coconutinternet.com/tablepress/
Thanks
Capt Conch

Hi,

no, sorry, I don’t really want to post my email address here, to prevent spam emails.
You can find my email address in the main plugin file “tablepress.php” and on that link that I posted above. It starts with “wordpress@”.

Now, good to hear that you found that screenshot! Now I know what you are talking about — and I’ll have to disappoint you. This toolbar is not coming from TablePress. TablePress offers a totally different editing interface, that you can see on the screenshots at https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/tablepress/screenshots/
That toolbar is most probably part of the “Visual editor” that WordPress offers. That editor, named TinyMCE, received a major version update in WordPress 3.9, which might be the reason why that toolbar is changed (or was moved maybe, I don’t know). There might even be a bug involved, as I found two tickets in the WordPress bug tracker that seem to be related:
https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/28005
https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/27991

Now, as this is not a TablePress feature, I’ll most likely not be able to help with that issue. Sorry.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

I need help, the tablepress is not showing me on the left tool bar, what should I do can you help me please.

Hi Tobias,

I’m also missing the plugin in the dashboard toolbar now…

/Allan

Hi Tobias,

We are two for now who are missing tablepress which despretly need it,

When I downloaded the plugin “user role editor” and accidentally I clicked “reset” all capabilities…
Now, connected as an admin, I have no more “access” (showing “you dont have enough rights…”) to the page wp-admin/admin.php?page=tablepress.
I can’t see the tablepress menu anymore in the dashboard :/

Hi,

This “old” solution from Tobias worked for me.

You should also be able to do it with user role editor. Just add the roles to administrator.

Hi,

@allanpedersen: Very nice! Yes, that pretty much is the solution to this. If a plugin removes the capabilities, they’ll have to be added again.

@devarman: The problem should now also be fixed on your site, see my email.

Best wishes,
Tobias

P.S.: In case you haven’t, please rate TablePress here in the plugin directory. Thanks!