Title: Updates section missing form Dashboard
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Updates section missing form Dashboard

 *  Resolved [jeremypoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremypoa/)
 * (@jeremypoa)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/)
 * I’m trying to update to v. 3.9 from 3.8.1 but there is no update section in the
   dashboard section like there has been in the past. How do you update your WordPress
   from the dashboard?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4844896)
 * Try navigating to Dashboard -> Updates. That should generate the upgrade notice.
 *  Thread Starter [jeremypoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremypoa/)
 * (@jeremypoa)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4844897)
 * There is now “Updates” that’s the problem
 *  Thread Starter [jeremypoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremypoa/)
 * (@jeremypoa)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4844901)
 * I’m only running into this issue on my site calvarypetaluma.org, but not on any
   of my other sites. It looks like my admin login is no longer giving me admin 
   permissions on this site even though I have the permissions set to admin.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4844906)
 * Using Phpmyadmin (or another MySQL management tool), first backup your database.
   Then navigate to your wp_usermeta table and locate the meta_key called “_wp\_capabilities_”
   for your user_id. Change the meta-value for this record to:
 * `a:1:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";}`
 *  Thread Starter [jeremypoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremypoa/)
 * (@jeremypoa)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4844999)
 * Ok, I did this but it didn’t seem to have any effect.
 *  Thread Starter [jeremypoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremypoa/)
 * (@jeremypoa)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4845000)
 * After making the suggested change above I just get this message when I try to
   log in.
 * _You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page._
 *  [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scynt/)
 * (@scynt)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4845040)
 * Make sure you don’t have this line in your wp-config.php file
 * `define( 'DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true );`
 *  Thread Starter [jeremypoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremypoa/)
 * (@jeremypoa)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4845061)
 * It doesn’t look like that line is in the wp-config.php file
 *  Thread Starter [jeremypoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremypoa/)
 * (@jeremypoa)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4845132)
 * I finally found the : define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_MODS’, true );
 * This solved the issue, thanks

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## Tags

 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dashboard/)
 * [Updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/updates/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 9 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [jeremypoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremypoa/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-section-missing-form-dashboard/#post-4845132)
 * Status: resolved

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