Title: Links Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Links * Resolved [Workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/) * (@workshopshed) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/) * The links options have disappeared from the admin menus and trying to visit the page directly /wp-admin/link-manager.php * Reports the error: * You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. * My user has the adminstrator role and could access links before upgrading from the to 3.5-RC1 (night of 21st Nov) * Looking in the DB there is an option prefixwp_user_roles with a big long list of capabilities including “manage_links”. * My user also has usermeta data * prefixwp_capabilities a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;} prefiwp_user_level 10 * All the other menus seem to be there. * Points to note: my database prefix has been configured, my admin user has been renamed. * I downloaded the “Capability Manager Enhanced” plugin to have a look at my roles. The administrator role has all the boxes ticked. * I also tried creating a new admin user with a different name but the problem occurs for that user too Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/page/2/?output_format=md) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211923) * No problems with Links and RC1 here. Are you using Twenty Twelve with no active plugins? * Thread Starter [Workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/) * (@workshopshed) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211931) * I wasn’t but I am now. Problem persists. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211938) * Try re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder – from a **fresh** download of WordPress 3.5 RC1. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones. * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211950) * I’ve just managed to duplicate the symptom. I (automatically) upgraded from a test install of 3.4.2 to 3.5 RC1 using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, and duplicated [@workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/)’ s symptoms exactly. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211952) * I simply can’t replicate the problem. However, I did notice that my RC1 update today (using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin) took forever to download (I had to increase the max_execution_time in the server’s php.ini file to get it to download successfully). That’s why I’m wondering if the downloads are being corrupted or cut short and whether a manual re-upload might help. * Thread Starter [Workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/) * (@workshopshed) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211953) * Apparently it’s been intentionally removed. * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-manager-in-35?replies=11](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-manager-in-35?replies=11) [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21307](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21307) * There is a check in capabilities.php for ” get_option( ‘link_manager_enabled’)” which is supposed to be correctly set for people who use links. * I’ve installed the plugin which turns the functionality back on. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/link-manager/) * and it’s now working again. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211955) * Uh? It’s still there for me! Both on the menu and via /wp-admin/link-manager. php! * Thread Starter [Workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/) * (@workshopshed) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211956) * You probably have the “link_manager_enabled” option set for your admin user, it’s possible that it did not get set on my system for some strange reason. * Moderator [Dominik Schilling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocean90/) * (@ocean90) * WordPress Core Developer * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211960) * > Hide the link manager from the UI on upgrade, if the site has no links. New > DB option, link_manager_enabled. * [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/21501](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/21501) * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211964) * _ “In WordPress 3.5, the Link Manager (which some use to build blogrolls) will be disabled by default. **If you have links when you update, it’ll still be there**.” * The “blogroll” on my test site contained the 7 active default links, and the upgrade still turned it off. Is that going to be expected behavior? * With all the time I spend burying my amateur nose in everything WordPress, I don’t know how I missed this. * mysite.com/wp-admin/options.php > link_manager_enabled = a big fat “0” * I changed it back to “1”, and it returned to it’s previous state. * Maybe at some point posts and pages can be pulled out of core so users can selectively activate those features with a plugin as well. * Thread Starter [Workshopshed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workshopshed/) * (@workshopshed) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211966) * Looking at that code example from Dominic I suspect the issue is because I was upgrading via the beta version hence the upgrade skips checking our links because the version is too high. * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211967) * I duplicated the issue while upgrading directly from the stable version of 3.4.2 to 3.5 RC1. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211978) * Flagging this up for core dev attention. * Moderator [Sergey Biryukov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sergeybiryukov/) * (@sergeybiryukov) * WordPress Dev * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211982) * > _“In WordPress 3.5, the Link Manager (which some use to build blogrolls) will > be disabled by default. **If you have links when you update, it’ll still be > there**.”_ > The “blogroll” on my test site contained the 7 active default links, and the > upgrade still turned it off. Is that going to be expected behavior? * Yes. As mentioned in the Trac ticket linked above, default links are removed if those are the only ones you have. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/#post-3211983) * My install only has the default links, yet I retained an active Link Manager Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Links’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [nacin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nacin/) * In: [Alpha/Beta/RC](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/) * 20 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [Andrew Nacin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nacin/) * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/links-50/page/2/#post-3212009) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics