Connection dashboard items missing

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  • 09/29/2014 at 8:58 am #305438
    David Proett
    Guest

    I cannot see the Connections items in the Admin dashboard after installing the last connections update on WP 4.0. The plugin is still active and functioning on the live site, but I have no way to manage, add entries, categories, etc.

    09/29/2014 at 9:44 am #305443
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ David

    Could you clarify … Can you see the Connections admin pages? Is it that the entries do not show up on the Connections : Manage admin page?

    09/29/2014 at 10:01 am #305445
    David Proett
    Guest

    I CANNOT see the Connections admin pages. I can see connections under plugins and it is active, but that is it.

    09/29/2014 at 10:35 am #305454
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ David

    The only other time I;’ve seen this happen is when another plugin pushed Connections off the admin menu. Unfortunately I can not remember the plugin’s name … I think its name started with a BW.

    Can you list your active plugins?

    09/29/2014 at 10:53 am #305464
    David Proett
    Guest

    I added a plugin called “Master Bar” last Saturday which puts a notice on the top of each page. Based on your response, I deactivated the plugin, refreshed the page and now the Connections pages are back. I would have never thought that one plugin would have pushed another, completely unrelated plugin, off of the admin side bar. Any suggestions? I can easily used a different notice bar plugin. There are many available.

    09/29/2014 at 12:25 pm #305475
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ David

    I’ll have to add this to the plugin conflicts.

    This can happen when a plugin sets a specific page priority when adding their admin page. If a plugin happens to be in that spot, assigned by WordPress, it will get bumped from the menu.

    My experience, it is better to let WordPress manage the priority because defining then only causes issues like this. A quick look thru Master Bar’s code … they add the page with a priority of 100. Which seems to unfortunately be the position Connections occupies (I do not define a priority, I let WordPress assign it).

    If you want to use master Bar, you could edit the plugin to remove the priority then things should play together just fine. I found it right here:

    https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-bar/trunk/admin/options-init.php#L607

    You would remove the 100 leaving just the quotes.

    Hope that helps!

    09/29/2014 at 3:25 pm #305477
    David Proett
    Guest

    Thanks so much for your help.

    I removed the Master Bar and I’m exploring “Themify”. So far, so good and no issues with bumping other plugins. I hate hard coding. I never understand why some developers do it.

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