I'm having a very simple problem. I'm new to WordPress and I'm trying to install a plugin.
Everyone says there's a "plugins" option on the sidebar-menu in the admin panel, but I don't see one! I've looked for it in all the sub-menus too.
Whenever I try to search for this problem, I get results about creating a plugin to show on the admin menu.
Anyway, how can I get the plugins menu to show up?
The issue is almost certainly related to one of two things:
1) You don't have permissions (are you logged in as admin?)
OR
2) The theme (or a plugin) has disabled the plugins menu.
After you've checked to be sure that you are an administrator, then you should attempt to view this page:
http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php (replacing www.yourdomain.com with your site's domain name).
If it's accessible, then it's time to start exploring the theme (which theme are you using?) and possibly some of the plugins that might have disabled the menu item.
FYI, the method to remove dashboard menu items is covered here: http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-menus-in-wordpress-dashboard
If you did double check your file permissions (i.e. 755 for folders and 644 for wordpress files on Linux), please consider editing your wp-config.php file and change
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS',true);
to
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS',false);
The Add New option in Plugins menu will show up, also if you have internet connection, possible updates will be shown up.
This what I found looking for the same problem, I guess this is your situation also:
If your site is hosted on WordPress.com:
Plugins: Plugins are tools used to extend the functionality of the WordPress platform. However, they are only applicable to self-hosted blogs and web sites using the WordPress.org software. Plugins are not permitted here at WordPress.com for various security reasons.
On wordpress.com hosted sites, you don't have permission to install plugins. You must have an own wordpress installation to do that.
I found this post searching for help with a similar issue with a self-hosted WordPress installation -- in this case it was a site that a friend had paid someone to make, but then took them off the work and asked me to help out.
There were several regular menu options missing -- it turned out to be down to a plugin called Admin Menu Editor that the previous web guy had installed to limit the options available to my friend, so they wouldn't mess with things.
In this case I could access the options for Admin Menu Editor by going to http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=menu_editor
In one of my cases it turned out to be strictly file permission thing so apache users could not access the plugins directory.
I have never seen that problem before. However, try either expanding all the current menu items to see if "plugins" are listed there, or try deactivating some/all of your plugins to see if one of the plugins are conflicting somehow and making your plugins menu not display.
I know this is an old question but I hit this problem at work recently with a WordPress site I inherited that had been originally developed by an external company. I tracked it down to the roles assigned to the user account. The "admin" account I had been given was actually assigned a restricted role that didn't have permission to access most of the settings.
Fortunately, I have access to the database so I was able to modify the assigned role directly. The default database prefix in WordPress is wp but you may need adjust these steps according to your own database.
First, find the user_id in the wp_users table for the account you want to modify and then run the following SQL against your WordPress database.
UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value = "a:1:{s:13:""administrator"";b:1;}" WHERE user_id = {your_user_id} AND meta_key = "wp_capabilities";
UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value = "10" WHERE user_id = {your_user_id} AND meta_key = "wp_user_level";
The next time you log in with that user account it should now have administrator privileges.
If you are using the multisite feature of Wordpress you will only see the plugins menu if you are super admin.
In the menu go to "My Sites" at the top of the page then click "Network Admin". (If you do not have this option you are not super admin.) Under "Network Admin" click "Dashboard" and then the plugins menu will appear. In your Network settings you can enable plugins for the sites.
The issue I was having was even trickier: No one was super admin. I fixed this by overwriting the "is_super_admin" function (simply returning true always) and then editing the settings as needed, before removing the overwrite again.
If you install a local WordPress the Plugins sub menu will not appear for any of the sites you work. Click My Sites area at the top of the page then click Network Admin and then click Dashboard. The Plugins sub menu will appear there. Then install new plugins and use it on sites on which you are working.
Good luck.
For me, changing lines in wp-config.php worked. I changed:
define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true);
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true);
to
define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', false);
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', false);
There might be a couple of reasons for the same. Some of them are:-
Reason 1 - When the website is hosted on wordpress.com
Reason 2 - When the user is logged in with a non-admin account
Reason 3 - When the WordPress website/blog is a part of a multi-site-network and the network admin has disabled the plugin menu
Reason 4 - Plugins Conflict
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I am helping a friend build a simple Wordpress website, their current website is with a hosting and domain service called https://www.icuk.net/.
The website is very poorly built on this platform. I told them I'd make a website for free on WordPress as I have some experience with drag and drop WordPress website builders.
My question is, if I use the platform's one-click WordPress installation, does it automatically delete the website that was previously using the domain and hosting? If so, could anyone explain in layman's terms how I would go about backing it up, as it's always better to be safe than sorry.
I would be hesitant to do this, personally. I believe you can use the one click service to uninstall, at which point you can install WP again. A better option, however, if WP is already installed, would be to just change the theme, deactivate and delete any unwanted plugins, and then delete (or change to draft if you may want any of the content for your new development) any unwanted posts or pages. A current version of WP is a current version of WP, thus there is no reason to reinstall. Once you change the theme, remove the posts and pages, and remove the plugins, you are essentially back to a new install. Maybe do that instead?
I have several pages on my site and I want to password protect a page which contains the latest posts.
Simply going to the admin panel and setting Visibility: Password protected isn't doing anything so.
How could I achieve this?
Follow these steps:
Check you browser console first may be some javascript file cause
of error.
If the issue not resolved with this, deactivate all plugins and
check console again. Then activate the plugins one by one
and check which one is conflicting.
If the error is still there change you theme to one of default WordPress
themes and check, has your issue been resolved.
If issue still there then update your WordPress core files only.
I'm logged in as the administrator,
my site is self-hosted (the url is www.domain.com )
I'm not the one who built the site and I cant contact him,
this is the first time that I'm trying to install a plugin so I have never checked if it exists or not before today.
the problem is in the local version and in the online version.
thanks :-)
Since your site is self-hosted, you can navigate to the folder wp-content -> plugins and add "zzzzz_" to the front of all plugins. This will disable all plugins without breaking anything. From there, see if your Plugins tab returns in the WordPress backend. If nothing happens, change the naming structure back.
After that, you'll want to download all of the files from your theme, which can be found in wp-content -> themes -> YOUR_THEME_NAME. From there, download the files, and KEEP A BACKUP. The file you'll be looking for in your theme is functions.php. Use CTRL + F (or whatever the search is in your favorite text editor) and find remove_menu_page( or add_action('admin_menu'. You'll want to look for something referencing plugins. This site has some information on how to remove the plugins tab. There should be code using some of these functions specifically set to remove the plugins menu from your admin.
Try to disable all plugins, and see if the tab return
You can do this only in this way: http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/
Try to change theme,too.
I've made a clean install of Wordpress on my server and added WooCommerce plugin. Now, some of the pages in the admin panel doesn't display correctly (Dashboard, Media, WooCommerce, etc.).
This is a clean install, only WooCommerce plugin is active.
Do you have any idea why this is happening?
Thanks
Ok so there is VERY little information to go on here so here is the general "Wordpress Broke" debugging guide.
Disable WooCommerce and see if Wordpress goes back to normal. If this is the case then you have to Reinstall WooCommerce. This is where http://docs.woothemes.com/document/known-conflicts would come in handy
If it is still broken without any plugins then you have to check your directory permissions, file structure, and URL Structure.
99% of the time chrome devtools will be your best friend for debuging these problems. It looks like you are not loading some of the core CSS files so lets look to see if you have a a 404, 403, or 500 error when chrome requests them.
Open up chrome and go to the Wordpress admin
Right click anywhere on the page and "Inspect Element"
Look for the red error icon on the right side (top/bottom) and click it to expend the console.
You will probably see the failed requests in there. Make sure the requests are for the correct urls, such as: http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/load-styles.php or http://yourdomain.com/wp-includes/js/thickbox/thickbox.css
If that are valid URLs and you have verified that the files exist on the server then you have to check directory permissions: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
Best wishes, let me know how it goes
I have seen that problem quite a while right now. You can try adding a specialized theme that has WooCommerce support like BootFrame Core theme. Or any other themes supporting WooCommerce -> https://wordpress.org/themes/search/woocommerce/ . Once, I used a WooCommerce, installed the plugin before changing any theme and had to create a new DB because the one I made before got corrupted due to the theme not working with WooCommerce. It's just a rare case but it can happen.
I am having an issue that i have been unable figure out. The problem im having is when i login to wordpress admin and try ro customize the theme nothing displays besides the nav. I can edit pages, posts, basically do everything in The Admin except customize the theme. When i upload to a live server i dont have this issue. I'll attach a link to an image for visual reference.
I'm running wamp on windows 8 with wordpress 3.5.1. I added the plugin server buddy to check the setup and everyhing appears fine. Permissions were 755 and I temporarily set it to 777 to make sure wasn't that for any strange reason. One thing I notice with folders is if I look at properties read only is highlighted not checked and applying win't save the change. Could be because have them applied in advance security settings?
I have tried this with multiple themes all the same result.
Here is the screenshot.
http://i46.tinypic.com/qs0c2d.gif
Thanks in advance for any help.
I had the exact same problem. I was forcing SSL/HTTPS on the admin console as well. I turned off HTTPS on the admin console (still in use for my shopping cart) and all is well.