super admin??  is this multisite?  did you install it on main site or one of the network sites?  or do you just mean a wp admin in standard wordpress mode?

five versions?  of the forum display?  nice wp theme or plugin doing wonky things… I would say go to forum – integration – page and permalink and see the options in the display options section.. namely display multiple, display in loop and strict api…  but sounds like you cannot get there…

so lets get that working first… 

but would like the first question in this post answered first as it could impact path forward…

Sorry, yes.  Admin.  It’s not Multi-Site.  🙂

Sadly I can’t get to anything else, so navigating to Intergration and whatnot isn’t an option – literally the only thing that doesn’t throw an “insufficient permissions” screen is the Forum -> Admins.  In fact, that’s the only menu item I have.

Even tried deactivating and reactivating, but no change.

okay, so lets do something real quick….pull up phpmyadmin or your db tool of choice…  go to the wp user meta table… we want to look up a meta entry for your user id…  the meta key will be wp_capabilities but your prefix might be other than wp_…

for that entry, lets change it to:

a:14:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";s:18:"SPF Manage Options";s:1:"1";s:17:"SPF Manage Forums";s:1:"1";s:22:"SPF Manage User Groups";s:1:"1";s:22:"SPF Manage Permissions";s:1:"1";s:21:"SPF Manage Components";s:1:"1";s:16:"SPF Manage Users";s:1:"1";s:17:"SPF Manage Admins";s:1:"1";s:18:"SPF Manage Toolbox";s:1:"1";s:24:"SPF Manage Configuration";s:1:"1";s:19:"SPF Manage Profiles";s:1:"1";s:15:"SPF Manage Tags";s:1:"1";s:17:"SPF Manage Themes";s:1:"1";s:18:"SPF Manage Plugins";s:1:"1";}

that should get you back as an sp admin… use caution copying – raw code so quotes dont get messed up…

Did that.  No change in my access.  Still can only get to Forum -> Admins.

And still seeing 5 unformatted versions of the Forum on the page.

Let me add: Against my better judgment, this is on a live site.  Figured that because there’s no link to it yet, there was no harm in messing around “backstage”.  (So changing themes isn’t an option.)

You can see the five unformatted / one formatted version at this link:  dadditudes.com/forum/

really?  not sure how that is possible… sure it was your user id?  and the meta key entry would have already existed… you were just changing the data…  what was it before?

in the sfmembers table, for your user id, what is the value in the admin column?

can you repost that meta key from your db?

Sorry, should have been clearer.  My bad.  🙂

By “did that”, I mean that I followed your instructions and pasted the code.  🙂

And in the sfmembers table, there’s a “1” in the admin column for my user ID (which is also 1).

yes, I understood…

I was hoping you could paste back from your db the code you put in there…  did you use the copy raw code button?

and wanted to make sure the meta_key entry already existed… and if you knew what it was before you over wrote it…

good, that column should be 1…

Sure thing.  And yes, I used the “copy raw code” button.  Code I pasted is:

a:14:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;s:18:”SPF Manage Options”;s:1:”1″;s:17:”SPF Manage Forums”;s:1:”1″;s:22:”SPF Manage User Groups”;s:1:”1″;s:22:”SPF Manage Permissions”;s:1:”1″;s:21:”SPF Manage Components”;s:1:”1″;s:16:”SPF Manage Users”;s:1:”1″;s:17:”SPF Manage Admins”;s:1:”1″;s:18:”SPF Manage Toolbox”;s:1:”1″;s:24:”SPF Manage Configuration”;s:1:”1″;s:19:”SPF Manage Profiles”;s:1:”1″;s:15:”SPF Manage Tags”;s:1:”1″;s:17:”SPF Manage Themes”;s:1:”1″;s:18:”SPF Manage Plugins”;s:1:”1″;}

…and it looked the same before I overwrote it.

(Went looking for the “Raw code” in the editor to send it back to you, couldn’t spot it.)

there is no raw code copy when pasting – that is when copying a code section… to create new code section, paste the text, highlight and select the code button… it looks like${}… and select the language…

I have to admit, a bit befuddled… and that does not happen often!

you do not cache the admin, right?

and you are really logged in for the user id that you made the user meta change? (sorry, have to ask)

is your wp admin translated? (ie in non English language)

any other plugins that explicitly deal with wp admins and limiting access?

just gathering info…

in the meantime, lets see if we can get your display right… since you cannot access the admin, lets do in db…

find the sfoptions table…  look for entries for option_name of

sfinloop
sfmultiplecontent

try setting the option_value to 1 for both… if they dont exist, create them…  leave the option id blank if creating and it will auto fill that one…

This one’s got me stymied as well.  I’m using to writing and hacking other people’s code, but had no idea where to start here.  I’m using WP Super Cache, but it’s not cached for logged-in users.

And yeah, logged in as ID 1.  It’s the only one on the site with Admin rights.  No translation.  

But I think you’ve stumbled across my problem.  As for access plugins, I *am* using Advanced Access Manager.  And here’s what I’ve found.  I was too quick to say the raw code I pasted into the DB was the same – it omitted the “Super Admin” capability I needed to get into Advanced Access Manager.  So I added that to what you gave me.

s:11:”super_admin”;s:1:”1″;

Now that I can get back into AAM, there’s absolutely nothing under the main Admin account that shows ANYTHING other than the “Admins” link off the “Forums” menu.  Nothing under “Capabilities” or anywhere else.

Evidently AAM and SPF don’t play well together.  I have a hunch I’m not the first person to find that out – off to search the forums to see if someone’s already run into that one.

how did you add it?  its a serialized array… so did you adjust the stuff at beginning… ie change a14 to a15?  sorry, if you already know how serialized strings work…

I have heard of others using AAM (I think) but have not heard of such an issue as this…  now I know where you came up Super Admin vs WP admin…

will do some research myself…

lots of topics in the wp org forums about it blocking access to other admin panels added by plugins… most topics are unanswered though…

is there a configuration panel or something in the admin for controlling access to other admin pages added by plugins?

Yes, changed the a14.  Here’s what’s there now:

a:15:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;s:11:”super_admin”;s:1:”1″;s:18:”SPF Manage Options”;s:1:”1″;s:17:”SPF Manage Forums”;s:1:”1″;s:22:”SPF Manage User Groups”;s:1:”1″;s:22:”SPF Manage Permissions”;s:1:”1″;s:21:”SPF Manage Components”;s:1:”1″;s:16:”SPF Manage Users”;s:1:”1″;s:17:”SPF Manage Admins”;s:1:”1″;s:18:”SPF Manage Toolbox”;s:1:”1″;s:24:”SPF Manage Configuration”;s:1:”1″;s:19:”SPF Manage Profiles”;s:1:”1″;s:15:”SPF Manage Tags”;s:1:”1″;s:17:”SPF Manage Themes”;s:1:”1″;s:18:”SPF Manage Plugins”;s:1:”1″;}

Still no joy.  Doesn’t make sense to me that there’s NOTHING about SPF showing up in AAM at all.  It allows for ridiculously granular control of EVERYTHING.  That’s why I installed it in the first place, because the default WP roles didn’t allow me to close off some of the areas I wanted closed (mine is a muilti-author site with different writers using different custom post types, so AAM seemed the best way to limit confusion).  Might be time to re-examine whether I should just blow that out and come up with a different solution.