Hi,
It sounds like your capabilities might not be quite right.
I would add a capability manager plugin and check that your user has the edit_themes capability (it should be on for administrator accounts by default), if you don’t have it you should add it, most capability plugins will let you add back capabilities you might be missing.
Same problem.. it was there before, now it’s not. Something updated maybe. I’m administrator with user level 10 so it’s not a capabilities issue.
@mrbrian: If you require assistance then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic instead of tagging onto someone else’s.
@esmi. Sorry, i jumped to the conclusion it was a plugin bug since it was just updated 3 days ago.
My issue solved – turns out another plugin, NinjaFirewall, had disabled the edit_themes capability which this plugin checks for in order to create the menu. Also, if you have ‘define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’, true )’ in your wp-config.php that could cause it.
i checked the capabilities and as an admin i can change the themes.
any other ideas, why ich can’t see the string locator tool??
It might be a conflict with another plugin for example, have you tried disabling any other plugins?
Alternatively, if you can provide a list of plugins you are currently running I could see if any of them would be causing any issues.
Hi Marius,
i use the following plugins:
Akismet
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
Capability Manager
CategoryTinymce
Image Source Control
Jetpack
Loco Translate
TinyMCE Advanced
Under Construction
WP Gallery Custom Links
Yoast SEO
Awesome, I’ll have a look and see if I can spot anything (these are all the latest version I take it?) once I’m on a stale connection, as I’m currently in transit at an airport 🙂
Changing themes is not affected by edit_themes capability (that would be switch_themes), but rather it’s for actually editing theme files through wordpress. Check that you can visit wp-admin/theme-editor.php. It’s likely a plugin, or your theme has disabled edit_themes capability via functions.php perhaps.
@ Marius: Your help would be much appreciated!
@ MrBrian: I tried that and i’m not able to access the theme-editor.php. It’s saying again, that i lack the rights to access that page.
If i understand you correctly you think i should change something in the functions.php?
Thank you
Hi,
If, as MrBrian mentioned, you can’t access the theme editor, then you are lacking the capabilities to make edits directly to files (this could be DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT line in your sites wp-config.php file, or it could be something else), unfortunately my plugin relies on that capability to let you edit files.
In some rare cases, a host might have blocked this capability as well (under the Plugins menu, you have Active, Inactive etc abve the list of plugins, is there also one called “Must Use” ? If so, have a look under there as that might be related)
