nibb

Thanks Andrea,
suspected that might the case. User role issue might have been me, spent a bit of time going loopy between ourselves and the plugin writers for the Wiki plugin. I’d rather not have to try and export the whole lot and import it somehow into a virginal install.

thanks for having a look

Yup,
its looking like the correct data is still in the tables:

mysql> select user_id,meta_key,meta_value from wp_usermeta where meta_key like '%capabilities%';
+---------+--------------------+-------------------------------------+
| user_id | meta_key           | meta_value                          |
+---------+--------------------+-------------------------------------+
|       1 | wp_1_capabilities  | a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}     |
|       2 | wp_1_capabilities  | a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}     |
|       3 | wp_9_capabilities  | a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}     |
|       4 | wp_2_capabilities  | a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}     |
|       5 | wp_3_capabilities  | a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}     |
|       2 | wp_4_capabilities  | a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}     |

However, the only value that appears within the admin functions (Site backend or edit when you get a list of your blogs/network) is Wiki Editor – no other options (Editor, Author, Subscriber etc) appear.

Hang on, sorry, spouting before I have caught up on myself, its been one of those weekends. Of course, there isn’t a table for wp_capabilities is there! Doh!

So – back to James, cheers for that, will have a go!

Back to plugin chaps – could still be the plugin thats changed matters, will contribute as much info to you as I can chaps

cheers all

Strewth, looking like the capabilities table no longer exists! Which would of course answer everything.

Wonder if we can stitch one in from a virginal install.

No one recalls touching the tables either. Could possibly have happened during upgrade I guess, we were an original WPMU (i.e. the 2.x series offering before WP 3 amalgamated things together.

Apolos to the plugin team – might have nothing to do with you guys at all!

Got to admin Beatpanda I was confused as to what might have happened too. Hope its not the plugin to be honest, that its the only reference in the drop down hints at a possible, but lets face it, could be the interaction of a couple of plugins.

Thanks for the info James.

Howdy folks
Shyzer is correct, we have had some discussion elsewhere on the forums regarding the use of this plugin (and a google one that causes similar issues) and WPMU, essentially you become unable to delete media library items and cannot delete articles (pages or posts) from the admin panel.

Turning off the plugin restores these abilities.

best

Nibb

*DOH*
Appears that the same plugin messes up the Media File library entries too!

Have to say I’m well impressed with everyones efforts on this topic. I spent a witless amount of time trying to find a solution without remembering what appears to be a new maxim in WP development – ‘always check its not a plugin first’

I concur that turning off the Mobile plugin (in my case) solved the issue of being able to delete pages from the Management page.

ALAS!

I still have a similar problem in that I cannot delete items from the Media Library. The action goes off, comes back – media item still in the list. I think perhaps the database table might be corrupt, because the library seems to think there are three items for blog 1, yet in blogs.dir/1/ (this is on WPMU) there are only two files.

ANyone using WPMU ever come across this problem?

thanks everyone for effort

Steve

Of course I will Techno – many thanks for putting the effort it.

In the end I managed to trace how the wp_list_page function (eventually) filters its output via the extended class Walker_Page. So on a theme by theme basis and without any kind of elegance I can put a mutated class steves_Walker_Page and siimilar copies of wp_list_pages etc.

Its just not elegant really.

Im working up to learning plugins you see :00
thanks again both for input, I will certainly try out the new copy of the plugin Techno!

Essentially because it is inflexible. In my own attempt I converted the spaces and underscores with string-replace before using it to populate the Anchor.

It need not be the slug that is used, I know of one attempt at a plugin that extends the edit page with a box allowing the user to alter the ‘name’ of the page as it is used in all Navigations, but alas, the plugin doesn’t seem to work in 2.6.1+ or WPMU 2.6 at all.

Hi,
I’ve recently tried the plugin with WP 2.6.1 and WPMU 2.6. In WPMU it doesn’t supply anything to the editor interface, and in WP it does actually provide the wee box for the alternate link, but then doesn’t use whatever you put in there.

Any ideas?

Would be great to see this one work well, I used to use the stub instead of the title to form navigation buttons, rewriting myself a copy of wp_list_pages. This has stopped working, and its not really a solution if you intend to keep upgrading WP.

thanks for the effort

Ive noticed (in WP 2.6.1 and WPMU 2.6) that when I try to delete categories from within the Manag/ Category panel – by ticking the box and selecting the delete button – something is actioned but the page refreshes and the category remains. The only way Ive found of getting around this is to delete the category in the DB by hand.

Any ideas anyone? Is it a plugin clash?

This is a massively irritating problem and frankly a major issue with the functionality and usability of the admin interface. Has it not been raised in TRAC? No developer looking at it?

We are using WPMU which already has a number of glitches we still haven’t found answers for, but such a problem in the admin interface is affecting all our blog users too.