TablePress doesn't show in Dashboard Menu

  • Resolved jayradioguy

    (@jayradioguy)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    today, table press was missing from the left-column menu in the WordPress dashboard area. The tables all function fine, but we cannot access them because there is no link on the menu.

    I tried deactivating/activating, deleting/reinstalling, but neither worked.

    The only thing that has changed was that I had to restore WP_user_roles in the WP_options table in the database; I did this from an online post in the WordPress support forum, but I don’t know how-to-date that was. (I was hoping that by uninstalling/reinstalling table press, I could reset that).

    Thanks in advance for your help

    Jay

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/

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  • Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

    Yes, this was caused by restoring the user roles, as that removed the TablePress capabilities — which now will have to be restored.
    For that, please try the instructions in this post: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubles-with-tablepress-rights?replies=4#post-5585107

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter jayradioguy

    (@jayradioguy)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I looked in options.php, and all the other options files – options-general, etc. – and could find NO tablepress entries at all. I went to a site where tablepress works correctly and could not find “tablepress” in any of the options files in wp-admin there, either.

    Now what?

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    ok, those instructions were a bit ambigious then, sorry.
    Instead of searching through the actual files on the server (via FTP, which I assume is what you tried), please go to

    http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options.php

    in your browser (with your domain).

    There, you should see a long list of “options” (names and a text field for each), and that’s where you’ll find the “tablepress_options” entry.

    Regards,
    Tobias

    Thread Starter jayradioguy

    (@jayradioguy)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Tobias,

    Thanks for all your help and responsiveness. I was unable to access options.php through the browser. I would get the login screen, then go to the dashboard; even when logged in, whenever I entered the URL for the options.php file, I was taken back to the login screen and then to the dashboard.

    I did fix the problem, but it was kind of a brute force method: First, I took the source code for the tables that were displaying on the website and exported them as CSV files for later importation.

    Then, I deleted the plug-in altogether. Then, I searched the database for all rows in all tables containing the word “tablepress” and deleted them. Then I downloaded, installed and activated the TablePress plug-in. At that point, TablePress did show up properly in the WordPress menu. Finally, I imported the CSV files to re-create the tables I had before.

    So, although it took me longer to do it this way, I ended up with a clean install and everything is working fine now.

    Thanks again for your help and responsiveness.

    Jay

    Plugin Author TobiasBg

    (@tobiasbg)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Jay,

    really weird that you were not able to access the options.php… Were you logging-in as an Administrator? Otherwise, I could imagine that something else on the server was interfering.

    Regardless, it’s great to hear that everything is working now! 🙂 That “brute-force” method of uninstalling everyting (the files and all the database entries) is quite similar to the method of changing that “tablepress_options” value. That’s why it works as well.

    Thanks for your patience and sorry again for all the trouble!

    Best wishes,
    Tobias

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