MrMaz

This issue is very difficult to debug. Its only happening to a small percentage of people. If you guys could copy/paste the following code into the functions.php file of your theme, it will give me a clue if permissions and/or a missing function is the issue.

var_dump( 'perm: ' . current_user_can( 'manage_links' ) );
var_dump( 'func: ' . function_exists( 'bp_links_admin_index' ) );

When you refresh the dashboard (logged in as the super admin) it should spit out a small bit of debug text. Please copy/paste ALL of that text in this topic.

@bitnumus Giving free support for free software on the weekend or on a busy Monday isn’t going to happen very often.

What I have found out so far is that I *think* the issue is related to the dashboard menu/admin screens require the ‘manage_links’ capability, which anyone who has the editor role or higher should have. Not sure why this is an issue as of 3.5. If anyone has any clues, please lmk.

Here is the role/cap table:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Capability_vs._Role_Table

I am stumped. I have tried activating it for a specific site, and network wide, and in both cases I can see the menu.

I am not able to replicate this on my test set up. Here are the versions I am on…

WordPress 3.5
BuddyPress 1.6.2
BP Links 0.7.1

Are you looking at the Network Dashboard? Depending on your setup the Links admin menu might only be showing up on the site dashboard where you activated it.

Try going here:

https://github.com/PressCrew/buddypress-links

Then click on the big “ZIP” button.

I just patched the code to support secure URLs (https). If you want to get it before the next release, you can grab the bleeding edge here:

https://github.com/PressCrew/buddypress-links/archive/master.zip

Please provide an example of a URL you are trying to add that is giving you the error.