Title: [Plugin: Allow Categories] Admin access broken in WordPress 3.3
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Allow Categories] Admin access broken in WordPress 3.3

 *  [Luke Rumley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukerumley/)
 * (@lukerumley)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-allow-categories-admin-access-broken-in-wordpress-33/)
 * I am suspecting function allow_notAdmin() but I haven’t figured it out exactly
   yet.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/allow-categories/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/allow-categories/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Luke Rumley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukerumley/)
 * (@lukerumley)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-allow-categories-admin-access-broken-in-wordpress-33/#post-2453860)
 * OK, I am able to edit as an admin again. Here is what I changed (right or wrong):
 *     ```
       function allow_notAdmin() {
       		global $userdata;
       		get_currentuserinfo();
       		if (Allow_Category::allow_loggedIn()) {
       			// OLD: return ($userdata->user_level < 10);
       			// NEW:
       			return !is_super_admin($userdata->ID);
       		} else {
       			return true;
       		}
       	}
       ```
   
 *  [robgundling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robgundling/)
 * (@robgundling)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-allow-categories-admin-access-broken-in-wordpress-33/#post-2454056)
 * Luke! Awesome addition to the community, man. Confirming that this fix works 
   great in WP3.2/3.3.
 * Thanks for posting…
 *  Thread Starter [Luke Rumley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukerumley/)
 * (@lukerumley)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-allow-categories-admin-access-broken-in-wordpress-33/#post-2454057)
 * Glad to, go open source!

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Luke Rumley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukerumley/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-allow-categories-admin-access-broken-in-wordpress-33/#post-2454057)
 * Status: not resolved