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Well, after much digging, I figured it out on my own: it’s because my database had grown too big and was larger than my web host allowed. Here’s a website with instructions:

INSERT command denied to user? Clean up your DB!

Hopefully this helps other people with this problem.

I’ve been doing some digging on my problem and have more information to add.

So, I realized that my custom menus were pointing to category pages. When looking for a resolution, I looked for cat page sort stuff instead. I found a wide range of topics in these forums about using this code to change the sorting for posts:

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=date&order=DESC') ?>

I added that before the loop in archive.php. It didn’t work. I tried it in index.php. It didn’t work. So, I still have no idea why posts are sorting alphabetically instead of reverse chronological.

I couldn’t figure out what was doing it, but I reset Firefox to defaults and the problem went away. Resolved!

Okay…I’m starting to think this isn’t a problem with my blog and is instead a virus (or similar) connected to Firefox. I’ve now seen the same ads on other websites, and it doesn’t show up on my blog when I try it in Chrome.

So, this isn’t a WordPress problem. But, if I find a solution, I’ll let you know anyway.

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

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

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.

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!

I know I’m not supposed to bump, bu i last mentioned this a month ago and I still haven’t gotten a reply. Is there anyone out there that can help me?

Nope, this isn’t a multi-site install and I don’t have a membership plugin.

It’s weird, because my usermeta data in the database has the administrator string “a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}”.

But it still doesn’t think I’m an administrator. I really am at a loss.

I tried this thread, but it didn’t apply since mine already says administrator in the database: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/logged-in-as-admin-or-am-i

And while this thread looked promising to me, like it might help my issue, I don’t understand it enough to apply it to my own situation: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/you-do-not-have-sufficient-permissions-to-update-plugins-for-this-blog?replies=9

Sigh….

Please, PLEASE someone help me. I’ll give you a virtual hug in return. You know you want one.

Thanks, Esmi…

I found “wp_capabilities” in the database and the meta-value is already what you said it should be.

I really don’t know what to do about this…

I’m still not sure what to do about this. I feel like my problem must be in the database somewhere, but I don’t know where to look. wp_users? wp_options?

I searched around the internet and didn’t find anything.

I thought about maybe updating WordPress manually, but I’m afraid that since I don’t have permissions anymore, it won’t let me complete the update once I upload it through FTP and sign in again. I’d hate to disable my site completely that way.

And I still can’t edit my widgets anymore because of this, and that’s a problem.

Anyone have any new advice. I haven’t gotten a reply in over a week.

Okay, I added a new user, assigned it as an “Administrator.” Then I logged in as that user and it has the same problems as the original. It still says I need to contact the site admin to update wordpress, and there still isn’t a Widgets section in the Appearance menu.

So, My problem still isn’t fixed.

I really don’t want to create a new user if I don’t have to (I prefer getting my WordPress emails at the email address I chose originally). Is there a way to change the current user (admin) to administrator? Perhaps in PHPmyAdmin panel in the database?

Thanks, Kmessinger.

– I deactivated all plugins, signed out, and signed back in. It didn’t fix the problem.

– I switched to Twenty Ten, signed out, and signed back in. It didn’t fix the problem (including the lack of “Widgets” in the Appearance menu.)

Nope, I don’t have WP-Insert. And I’m not missing the sidebars. Just the “Widgets” menu from the Appearances section. Everything else is there.