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1. Moodles
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just adding this to help someone in future:

   The company I work for is re-vamping its main site, built on WP, and on which I have a number of pages with multiple loops, customizing with category and Post ID exclusions in the queries, etc. It's a little complicated and so will the changes be to implement.

   I started a repeat install (with a different admin name to keep things clear to me which one I was working on!) of the actual site in a subfolder, and uploaded a copy of the database from the real site so I can work on it out of the public eye before doing the changes.

   I found that the redirection plugin page in the dashboard was blocked to me with the "you do not have sufficient permissions to view this page" message. Other plugins did not do this.

   After a bit of poking around, I realized that I had uploaded the entire database, including the redirects done on the other site. Since you can only redirect URLs of your own site, I am assuming the plugin would not let me have access to them in the "new" site. I didn't want the redirects on the practice site anyway, so for the repeat install I just deactivated the plugin.

   Long explanation... but this might help someone have a clue where to look in a similar situation. Other plugins might react the same way.

2. jrf
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This might not be caused by the db copy. Could you check in the url bar whether the query string is repeated ?
   i.e.: mydomain.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=redirection?page=redirection

   I found on my site that that is what has been causing the 'insufficient permissions' errors for quite a few plugins including this one.

   Getting confirmation of my assessment would be welcome.

3. Moodles
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Sorry for delay, I was out of town.

   This is what I see for the URL when I activated the plugin and then tried to access the dashboard settings page:

   domain.com/subdirectory/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=CategoryRedirect

4. Moodles
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   FYI I found out if I click on "settings" on the plugins page, I can get to the URLs. But there's a snag somewhere in Settings in the sidebar.

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