Unauthorized Access. You do not have the rights to manage this Event.

Hiya,

Given that this occurred after plugin updates the best thing to do is disable all plugins except EM and see if the issue goes away. If so, re-enable plugins one-by-one until the problem returns and you’ll find the cause.

Thanks

I’ve just tried deactivating every plugin but it didn’t fix it.

Which plugins did you update? Have you tried while running the default WordPress theme’

I can’t tell which plugins I updated. I’ve changed the template back to 2012 and that doesn’t fix it either.

did you try under Events > Settings > General > User Capabilities ?

Yes, I didn’t change them as it worked so I didn’t change anything to stop it working. Though it’s not clear which user is an anonymous user in this case. The options are: admin, editor, author, contributor, subscriber, customer, shop manager. After research I think that it is ‘contributor’ that I need to edit. Therefore I have just given contributor the rights to do absolutely everything, yet still it says unauthorised! I’ve just given administrator exactly the same rights as contributor, and it lets me submit events when logged in now, but not when anonymous.

A couple of things to try…

Under Events > Settings > General > Event Submmisson Form double-check that Allow anonymous event submissions is still set to yes.

Under that, the Guest Default User dropdown tells you which user account anonymous events are associated with. The role that user has (you can see it under the main Users page) is the one you need to edit under User Capablities.

Thank you for this, as I changed ‘anonymous’ to be a contributor rather than an author and it fixed the problem. I don’t know why it broke in the first place as I didn’t change any settings, but it is working now! Thank you.