Tools section missing from Dashboard

Hey,

You can access the export feature directly by navigating to ‘/wp-admin/export.php’

If it is a highly customized dashboard there may be a single “White Label” or similar plugin that you can deactivate.

If it was removed via a function within the theme (or more appropriately a custom plugin) you can search the functions.php for the following remove_menu_page( 'tools.php' ) (source) and remove the associated function and hook.

Thanks Josh. The export.php doesn’t work, it comes up with an error message, not found.

I’ll look through the functions.php to see what I can find.

Hi there! I had the same problem but I hired a programmer to fix it (by the way it cost me a lot). That is why I would like to know how to do it myself and to to pay anyone. Thanks.

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I’m back. No good. There’s no such line in the functions.php file. I’m really stumped. I disabled the theme in the hope that it might revert to the default but it didn’t. I have updated WordPress and other plugins but the theme, when re-enabled, now doesn’t work. I feel like I’ve made a right royal mess of things and will have to engage someone just as l_bush mentioned. I dread to think what it might cost, although admittedly the client will wear most of the cost.

If you think of anything else, please let me know.

I have the same problem. My non-responsive web designer block the tools and plug-ins on Dashboard. Could anyone help to bring the tools and plug-ins back?

Fortunately, I was able to run ‘/wp-admin/export.php’and’/wp-admin/plugins.php. Maybe I have an easy fix.

I don’t have the ftp access to do that. I’ve had to completely rebuild the site on another install.