option to change front page missing

Are you sure you’re logged in as administrator?

yup. I’m the only user there.

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

– re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.

I’ve tried all of those checkpoints to a tee, and I’m still having this problem as well.

This is happening to me at the moment
I have already deactivated all plug ins – swapped back to 20 12
not techy enough to do the resetting plugins folder.
Any other ideas?