Just to update again as others may encounter this issue – it was indeed the account capabilities. It seems that SM needs the user role to established first in the db table entry for the wp_capabilities meta_key field. In the case of my original admin account I had reset it’s Role at one point, which moved the role setting to the end of the meta_value. The account has some additional capabilities defined in the meta_key by Toolset Types so when that happened SM couldn’t see that the account was really an admin. I had to manually move the “s:13:”administrator”;b:1;” portion to the start of the meta_key and SM showed up in the menu where it should be.
WORKS:
a:13:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;s:26:”wpcf_custom_post_type_view”;b:1;s:26:”wpcf_custom_post_type_edit”;b:1;s:33:”wpcf_custom_post_type_edit_others”;b:1;s:25:”wpcf_custom_taxonomy_view”;b:1;s:25:”wpcf_custom_taxonomy_edit”;b:1;s:32:”wpcf_custom_taxonomy_edit_others”;b:1;s:22:”wpcf_custom_field_view”;b:1;s:22:”wpcf_custom_field_edit”;b:1;s:29:”wpcf_custom_field_edit_others”;b:1;s:25:”wpcf_user_meta_field_view”;b:1;s:25:”wpcf_user_meta_field_edit”;b:1;s:32:”wpcf_user_meta_field_edit_others”;b:1;}
DOESN’T WORK:
a:13:{s:26:”wpcf_custom_post_type_view”;b:1;s:26:”wpcf_custom_post_type_edit”;b:1;s:33:”wpcf_custom_post_type_edit_others”;b:1;s:25:”wpcf_custom_taxonomy_view”;b:1;s:25:”wpcf_custom_taxonomy_edit”;b:1;s:32:”wpcf_custom_taxonomy_edit_others”;b:1;s:22:”wpcf_custom_field_view”;b:1;s:22:”wpcf_custom_field_edit”;b:1;s:29:”wpcf_custom_field_edit_others”;b:1;s:25:”wpcf_user_meta_field_view”;b:1;s:25:”wpcf_user_meta_field_edit”;b:1;s:32:”wpcf_user_meta_field_edit_others”;b:1;s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}