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paul4
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Feb 13, 2013 - 10:06 am

My fellow admin, Conrad_Farlow, updated Wordpress a couple of days ago (I believe to 3.5.1). Since then he can see forum stuff in the Dashboard but I cannot any longer. We tried everything we could think of and, clutching at straws, everything which was unlikely but worth a shot.

He is unfortunately busy and not able to sort this, and I cannot do much without access.

Any ideas please? that I can sort. Or some suggestions that I can email him for when he is available.

thanks

paul4

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 13, 2013 - 10:37 am

Assuming you still have forum admin rights then you should see it if he does - it is a global setting.
The only possibility I can think of off-hand is that it has been turned off in the WP screen options at the top. Is that possible?

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paul4
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Feb 13, 2013 - 10:42 am

I assume I still have admin rights. I can see Board Admin Area forums, and I have the topic and post tools

Thought of that but it is still checked in the screen options. Have unchecked, logged out, logged in, re-checked ..... all the "daft" things tghat you know won't cure it, but you do anyway :)

 

I know it's gonna be one of those "will kick yourself when you find out" things, but I'm not proud :)

 

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 13, 2013 - 10:57 am

I can think of no other possible cause however. I will ask the other team members here however.

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paul4
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Feb 13, 2013 - 11:00 am

Thanks

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Conrad_Farlow
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Feb 13, 2013 - 4:59 pm

Mystery solved.

Not sure why but when I went to forums/admins/manage admins all of Paul's Admin capabilities were unchecked. Once I selected the appropriate capabilities the forum menu display was restored in the WP Admin Dashboard.

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Mr Papa
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Feb 13, 2013 - 7:17 pm

okay, thanks for the update...

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paul4
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Feb 14, 2013 - 2:07 am

Thanks Conrad

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