Title: Documents Admin menu item missing
Last modified: August 6, 2022

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# Documents Admin menu item missing

 *  Resolved [dennishall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennishall/)
 * (@dennishall)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/documents-admin-menu-item-missing/)
 * After installing this plugin from the WordPress Plugins > Add New page and activating
   it, there is no “Documents” admin menu item.
 * I’ve also searched in all admin sub-menus to see if you nested it and just didn’t
   update your videos. No joy.
 * I have no custom admin menu plugins running and and am logged in as my admin 
   user seeing all menu items for everything else I’ve ever installed.
 * Any insight?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [nwjames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nwjames/)
 * (@nwjames)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/documents-admin-menu-item-missing/#post-15895408)
 * [@dennishall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennishall/),
    This will be
   a permissions issue.
 * I suspect that your admin user also has another Role. This role does not allow
   the user to “edit_documents”.
 * By default, only roles of “administrator”, “editor”, “author” or “contributor”
   can edit documents. All other roles get the “edit_documents” capability set to
   false.
 * If your administrator user has another role AND the installation is set so that
   a “false” capability trumps a “true” one, then this will be the the result.
 * This has happened to me (with BuddyPress installed, ny Admin user also had the
   Keymaster role).
 * I thought that I had made a fix in an earlier release to note this as it is confusing.
   I created it with an expiration period of 15 seconds. Probably this was too short.
 * Please try inactivating the plugin, then reactivating it and using it on the 
   admin screen within a small number of seconds. You ought to see the error messages.
 * (Though this is more for me to understand why you didn’t see the message. At 
   root, I think the issue is about the roles belongint to the admin user.)
 * I hope that this sheds some light.
 * Regards,
    Neil James

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/documents-admin-menu-item-missing/#post-15895408)
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