Title: admin_menu and capability
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# admin_menu and capability

 *  [willcowd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willcowd/)
 * (@willcowd)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin_menu-and-capability/)
 * Hi All
 * I’m having problems with a menu page. I have setup
 *     ```
       add_action('admin_menu', 'todays_orders_page'); 
   
       function todays_orders_page() {
       	add_menu_page('Todays orders', 'Todays orders', 'todays_orders', __FILE__,'todays_orders');
       }
       ```
   
 * However, visiting the page with a user who has “todays_orders” capability results
   in a permission denied error.
 * Any help would be great.
 * Thanks
    Mark

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin_menu-and-capability/#post-5279183)
 * Does your menu page by any chance use the Settings API to display and save values?
   If so, you need to alter the capabilities allowed for the API in addition to 
   the one for accessing the menu page. See the [second note here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_menu_page#Notes).
 * If you’re not using the Settings API, then I’ve no idea about your problem, sorry.
   You may need to trace through the menu code after the `do_action('admin_menu')`
   point to determine what condition is triggering the error.

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## Tags

 * [admin_menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin_menu/)
 * [capability](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/capability/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin_menu-and-capability/#post-5279183)
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