Title: Strange admin menu for Sidebars
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Strange admin menu for Sidebars

 *  Resolved [psn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psn/)
 * (@psn)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-admin-menu-for-sidebars/)
 * Hi
 * I have had a very strange behaviour for editors, in admin menu they got sidebars
   and if they open it then shows category and tags as sub-menus.
 * Now I have solved this so Sidebar is not showned at all for editors, authors 
   etc only shows for admin and solution was to set capability “activate_plugin”
   or some other which only admin have.
 * I don’t know if the capability setting was screwed up by me or by the latest 
   update for Sidebars.
 * Can be worth to investigate for author of this plugin.
 * Per
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Joachim Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * (@intoxstudio)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-admin-menu-for-sidebars/#post-3427582)
 * Thanks for your feedback. I was actually aware of this, but I thought I’d made
   a fix for it. Right now, the capabilities are _edit\_theme\_options_ which is
   in the same “scope” as _activate\_plugin_, so switching between them should not
   change anything, but I will look in to it and get back.
 *  [Graham Stacey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graham-stacey/)
 * (@graham-stacey)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-admin-menu-for-sidebars/#post-3427600)
 * Can I also add my voice here.
    I seem to have the same problem: I have users 
   that have editor capabilities. I am using Admin Menu Editor Pro to provide an
   essentials view for editors and below. Even though the Sidebars menu is turned
   off for those users, it still appears but with ‘Categories, Tagas, News Categories,
   Resource Categories’ [the later two being custom taxonomies]. Happy to provide
   a clone on a testing site if it will help solve this.
 * Very pleased with your plugin, thank you.
 *  Plugin Author [Joachim Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * (@intoxstudio)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-admin-menu-for-sidebars/#post-3427601)
 * This problem should be fixed in version 1.3. Currently I do not know when it 
   will be out, but most likely sometime in March.

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## Tags

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 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)

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 * Last reply from: [Joachim Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-admin-menu-for-sidebars/#post-3427601)
 * Status: resolved