Jenni McKinnon

Hello @digitalforge!

Have you checked your settings to see what you have added as the home page and the blog page?

In your site’s WordPress admin dashboard, go to Settings > Reading.

Then, next to “Your homepage displays”, select the “A?static page?(select below)” option. Then, choose the page you want to be your home page and your blog page.

When you’re done, be sure to save your changes. The button is at the bottom of this settings page.

Here’s a screenshot so you can see where I’m referring to in your Settings.

Let me know if this doesn’t resolve your issue.

Best,

Jenni

P.S. You can ignore the questions that are answered already in this topic like the last thing you did and the version. Forgot to edit those out.

Edit: For some reason, my last reply isn’t showing up so here’s what was basically said in case you also can’t see it:

I found your topic through another topic you posted on after replying to you. I didn’t realize you already had a topic open at the time. You can reply here instead.

@geirrosset Do you remember what the last thing you did was before you received this error? It’s a long shot since you mentioned this happened ages ago, but I thought I’d ask, anyway.

– Did you backup, then reset your settings?
– Did you have a security plugin installed before this issue first occurred?
– Did you run any security scans to see if there were any issues?
– Did you check your access logs when it first happened to check for unauthorized access to files or the database?
– Did you check your file permissions to make sure they’re all set correctly?
– When did this start happening? What version of WordPress and PHP did you have installed at that time?
– Do you have any backups saved?
– did you check your error log when it started happening?
– Did you try turning on wp_debug with logging?
– Did you check the _usermeta table for incorrect references to the prefix in the meta_key column?
– Did you check the _options table for an incorrect reference in the option_name column and _user_roles?

Trying to gather as much info as I can to see if I can figure something out for you.

I know you said starting over wasn’t an option, but have you considered exporting your posts, media, users, etc. and importing them to a fresh site? It wouldn’t exactly be starting over from scratch. Just thought I’d throw it out there.

It’s also a good idea to start a new thread as per the support forum guidelines, especially since all the fixes mentioned here haven’t resolved this for you.

From thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wp-admin-sorry-you-are-not-allowed-to-access-this-page/page/3/

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Jenni McKinnon. Reason: Previous reply wasn't showing

I found your post from another thread so you can answer my questions from that one over here since you did start a topic of your own, which I didn’t realize at the time:

@geirrosset Do you remember what the last thing you did was before you received this error? It’s a long shot since you mentioned this happened ages ago, but I thought I’d ask, anyway.

– Did you backup, then reset your settings?
– Did you have a security plugin installed before this issue first occurred?
– Did you run any security scans to see if there were any issues?
– Did you check your access logs when it first happened to check for unauthorized access to files or the database?
– Did you check your file permissions to make sure they’re all set correctly?
– When did this start happening? What version of WordPress and PHP did you have installed at that time?
– Do you have any backups saved?
– did you check your error log when it started happening?
– Did you try turning on wp_debug with logging?
– Did you check the _usermeta table for incorrect references to the prefix in the meta_key column?
– Did you check the _options table for an incorrect reference in the option_name column and _user_roles?

Trying to gather as much info as I can to see if I can figure something out for you.

I know you said starting over wasn’t an option, but have you considered exporting your posts, media, users, etc. and importing them to a fresh site? It wouldn’t exactly be starting over from scratch. Just thought I’d throw it out there.

It’s also a good idea to start a new thread as per the support forum guidelines, especially since all the fixes mentioned here haven’t resolved this for you.

From this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wp-admin-sorry-you-are-not-allowed-to-access-this-page/

@geirrosset Do you remember what the last thing you did was before you received this error? It’s a long shot since you mentioned this happened ages ago, but I thought I’d ask, anyway.

– Did you backup, then reset your settings?
– Did you have a security plugin installed before this issue first occurred?
– Did you run any security scans to see if there were any issues?
– Did you check your access logs when it first happened to check for unauthorized access to files or the database?
– Did you check your file permissions to make sure they’re all set correctly?
– When did this start happening? What version of WordPress and PHP did you have installed at that time?
– Do you have any backups saved?
– did you check your error log when it started happening?
– Did you try turning on wp_debug with logging?
– Did you check the _usermeta table for incorrect references to the prefix in the meta_key column?
– Did you check the _options table for an incorrect reference in the option_name column and _user_roles?

Trying to gather as much info as I can to see if I can figure something out for you.

I know you said starting over wasn’t an option, but have you considered exporting your posts, media, users, etc. and importing them to a fresh site? It wouldn’t exactly be starting over from scratch. Just thought I’d throw it out there.

It’s also a good idea to start a new thread as per the support forum guidelines, especially since all the fixes mentioned here haven’t resolved this for you.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Jenni McKinnon. Reason: Added more questions

Hey,

I’m sorry to hear that some of you are still experiencing issues.

Try checking out this support forum post as there are a couple of fixes later on in the thread that should help: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wp-admin-sorry-you-are-not-allowed-to-access-this-page-1/

In short, make sure your database table prefix doesn’t include capital letters and be sure your wp-config.php file also doesn’t list the prefix with capital letters as well. You may need to manually make these modifications.

Also, be sure your version of PHP is 5.6 or higher. This may be the cause if you see this error on a fresh install of WordPress.

Good luck! ??

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Jenni McKinnon. Reason: [Edit: I updated the link so it would open on the first page of the thread.]

Hey,

Here are some helpful links with the CSS to get it done:

1. https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_list.asp
2. https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/l/list-style/
3. https://techforluddites.com/replacing-list-bullets-with-images-using-css/
4. https://www.macworld.com/article/1048296/januarycreate.html

Good luck!

Hey Pat,

I don’t see the same problem I had before, and I’m running out of time to get my work done so I unfortunately have to ask that you pass this along to someone else.

It may be helpful to post the code in the category.php file to pastebin, then share the link on the WordPress support page so someone else can take a look at it.

This page of the WordPress Codex might also help: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful!

Good luck!

That’s weird. Do they not want any one to ever see their site? Someone’s going to see it eventually, especially if they search for it. Posting the link won’t allow me access to their site’s back end or something.

Anyway, you can email me at contact{@}jennimckinnon.com. I’ll see what I can do to help.

Hi,

If you post all the info on here, it could help other people find the solution that’s shared here so I recommend sticking to this forum.

Besides, I don’t think there’s more info I could provide in a PM than here, anyway.

Hi,

Hopefully I’m understanding this right. You want to display your blog on another page, is that correct?

If so, you can change this by going to your admin dashboard, and then going to Settings > Reading. Under “Front page displays” click the radio button for “A static page (select below)” and choose a page you want for your homepage and one for your posts (blog) page. Hit save at the bottom. That will allow any other page you previously created to list your posts.

Hope that helps!

Hi,

Could you just use the category pages, and link to them in your menu (or where ever you’d like them to be displayed)?

Hi,

What’s your site URL, and the two category page URLs you are having troubles with?

I vaguely remember having a similar problem on one of my sites I was able to fix. I might all come back to me once I see what’s going on with your site.

Hi,

If you’re seeing additions to your title like this, it may be likely there is other spam, backlinks, and possibly malicious scripts included in the theme. I would uninstall it immediately, and choose a different theme.

It might also help to install a security plugin to help protect you in the future, and also clean up your site in case uninstalling doesn’t do the trick. I personally like Wordfence, but there are other out there like iThemes Security, and BulletProof Security.

Good luck!

What exactly happens when you try to log in on that page using the username and password for your contributor?

Hi,

Yes, it most certainly depends on your theme, and the CSS styling it has for tables.

You can change the styling in the style.css file under wp-content > themes > your-theme.

Good luck!