Title: WordPress Settings Menu Disappears
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress Settings Menu Disappears

 *  [vamban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamban/)
 * (@vamban)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/)
 * Hello
 * Thanks for your great plugin.
 * Yesterday, i have activated magic fields wordpress plugin in one of my blog.
 * After activated, wordpress admin settings menu disappears. Take a look on this
   screenshot.
 * [http://i52.tinypic.com/2uehd38.png](http://i52.tinypic.com/2uehd38.png)
 * But setting menu URL [http://www.mywebsitesite.com/wp-admin/options-general.php](http://www.mywebsitesite.com/wp-admin/options-general.php)
   is accessible by manually.
 * Is it plugin compatibility issue? How can i resolve this issue?

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 *  Thread Starter [vamban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamban/)
 * (@vamban)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155824)
 * Bump
 * any one help me out?
 *  Plugin Author [hunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hunk/)
 * (@hunk)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155849)
 * Have you other installed plugins?
 *  Thread Starter [vamban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamban/)
 * (@vamban)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155887)
 * There is only two plugins are active now in this wordpress installation.
 * 1.SEO Ultimate
    2.Magic fields
 *  [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * (@greencode)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155898)
 * I have it whereby my Pages Admin panel has vanished! I’m a little too scared 
   to deactivate magic fields in case any of my settings are lost. I have to access
   the Pages by going into the Dashboard but the menu item for Pages in the left
   menu is no longer visible.
 *  Thread Starter [vamban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamban/)
 * (@vamban)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155912)
 * OMG, Its a compatibility issues with seo-ultimate plugin. Once i deactivated 
   seo ultimate, i got my settings menu back.
 *  [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * (@greencode)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155915)
 * That’s odd because I don’t even use that plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [vamban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamban/)
 * (@vamban)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155942)
 * Anyone there to help me?
 *  [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * (@greencode)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155943)
 * I optimised my WP database and the Pages panel appeared once again. You may want
   to try that.
 *  [John](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnlamansky/)
 * (@johnlamansky)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155953)
 * I tracked down the bug in Magic Fields. Magic Fields alters WordPress’ `$menu`
   global without changing the `$_wp_last_utility_menu` global, which causes the“
   Settings” menu to disappear whenever a plugin (such as SEO Ultimate) calls WordPress’`
   add_utility_menu()` function.
 * Until the Magic Fields author fixes this bug, you can add this code after line
   375 in `magic-fields/RCCWP_Menu.php`:
 * > global $_wp_last_utility_menu;
   >  $_wp_last_utility_menu += $offset;
 * In context, it’ll look like this:
 * > foreach ($menu as $k => $v) {
   >  if($k > 5) $new_menu[$k+$offset]=$v; }
   > global $_wp_last_utility_menu;
   >  $_wp_last_utility_menu += $offset;
   > $menu = $new_menu;
   >  RCCWP_Menu::SetCurrentCustomWritePanelMenuItem();
 * – John Lamansky
    SEO Ultimate developer
 *  Thread Starter [vamban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamban/)
 * (@vamban)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155954)
 * Hello John Lamansky
 * Thanks for your efforts to find the problem.
 * But when i posted the same issue in magic fields support, magic fields developer
   who have replied here..
 * [https://github.com/hunk/Magic-Fields/issues/130#issuecomment-1550846](https://github.com/hunk/Magic-Fields/issues/130#issuecomment-1550846)
 * Which one is correct?
 *  [John](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnlamansky/)
 * (@johnlamansky)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155955)
 * Magic Fields breaks WordPress’s `add_utility_menu()` function, which WordPress
   provides for plugins to use. The Magic Fields author’s solution is to make SEO
   Ultimate and other plugins stop using `add_utility_menu()`, whereas my solution
   is to make Magic Fields stop breaking the function.
 *  Thread Starter [vamban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamban/)
 * (@vamban)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155956)
 * Hello John Lamansky
 * Thanks for your reply along with the reason.
 * Like your plugin, your answer is also out of box. Truly amazing…
 * Great thanks again..
 *  Plugin Author [hunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hunk/)
 * (@hunk)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155957)
 * Thanks John, fixed
 *  Thread Starter [vamban](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamban/)
 * (@vamban)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-settings-menu-disappears/#post-2155958)
 * Hello hunk
 * Thanks for your kind co-operation to troubleshoot the issue. But here i noticed
   that, still the magic fields plugin not updated in repository.
 * Do the needful.

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