Title: Plugin doesn’t show in left admin-sidebar
Last modified: February 9, 2022

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# Plugin doesn’t show in left admin-sidebar

 *  [olaf108](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olaf108/)
 * (@olaf108)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-doesnt-show-in-left-admin-sidebar/)
 * The plugin is shown in my plugin list as installed and activated. But it is not
   shown as button in the left admin-sidebar. So I can’t change any settings.
    I
   just tried to put a shortcode in a page – and this works…

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 *  Thread Starter [olaf108](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olaf108/)
 * (@olaf108)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-doesnt-show-in-left-admin-sidebar/#post-15345838)
 * addendum: WordPress-Version 5.9
 *  Plugin Author [Dani Llewellyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diddledani/)
 * (@diddledani)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-doesnt-show-in-left-admin-sidebar/#post-15345877)
 * There are no settings other than the shortcode or the block (which you should
   prefer over the shortcode if you’re using the block editor)

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 * Last reply from: [Dani Llewellyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diddledani/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-doesnt-show-in-left-admin-sidebar/#post-15345877)
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