Cannot find BP-links Admin link BP 1.6 & WPMU 3.5

I am logged on as superadmin when I do this.
Ole

In that case I am stumped again.

MrMaz, ok, i just seem to be posting on these support forums for every plugin after every update, not your fault.

What can i do to help you debug? if you want to email me i can provide you with access to have a poke around?

[email protected]

Confirming here too, that “Admin” section does not appear on the dashboard, as such not allowing me to modify the default categories – and with that defeating the purpose of the plugin for me.

WordPress version 3.5
BuddyPress version 1.6.3
BuddyPress Links version 0.7.1

Additional plugins in use (and no, deactivation of these does *not* help):

Delightful Downloads version 1.0.1
bbPress version 2.2.3
BP Bookmarklet version 1.1

Unless someone shows me a workaround or the problem gets solved, it looks like this extension is not compatible with this setup.

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.

Done. I have put up a debug installation at https://humle.biz. If you like, I can send you logon credentials and FTP access to this site. Just drop me an e-mail to ole (at) horneks.com.

The site is running in WP-DEBUG mode, and I got a message when I installed BuddyPress Links on this.

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$id in /home/humlenet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-links/bp-links-core.php on line 1477

I pasted the lines into the BP-default template that us used on this site (near the bottom). It is the same output for network admin dashboard or the main site dashboard.

string(6) "perm: " string(6) "func: "

From the fronted, when in WP-DEBUG mode, there is a lot of notices. The best is to look at https://humle.biz/links/

Best Regards,
Ole Kristian Ek Hornnes

Hello, I discovered what was wrong with this.

In WP 3.5, if you do not have any “links” from before, you need to install the links manager plugin. This will enable the “manage links” capability neccessary to enable this admin-menu item. This is the “bloggroll” functionality that was removed from WordPress in version 3.5.
When You have installed Links Manager, you get two new items on the admin-menu.
* Links
* BP-links

This for your information.
Best Regards,
Ole Kristian Ek Hornnes

I have wrote a blog post about this too ??
https://tech.humlesite.com/2013/01/20/where-is-my-buddypress-links-admin-panel/

Ole!

Wow, thanks for digging into this and solving it for me. That makes sense since only people doing a fresh install are having the issue.

I will do a maintenance release soon and change the capability required for the menu to shoe.

Marshall

You are welcome, ??
It was not much code tweaking this time…
I was looking for some debugging tool that could present the actions on the admin dashboard, I found debug bar actions, but this gave me only some useful information. I was looking more, and found a plugin for editing the admin menu on the dashboard. Using this, I discovered a hidden menu item “links”. The capabilities for this was “managing links”. I changed it to “Administrator”, and then it showed up. When I hit that link, i got a screen telling “are you cheating?”. I was a bit curious why I as super admin obviously did not had “manage links” capabilities, and searched the net too see. I found this plugin, and decided to try, and viola – this solved it.
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Ole K.