Title: Users cannot create posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Users cannot create posts

 *  [jcviblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcviblog/)
 * (@jcviblog)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/)
 * I recently upgraded my WordPress installation to 3.0. Upon doing so, when a user
   goes to create a new post, the button which normally reads “Publish” now reads“
   Submit for Review”. Upon clicking that button or the “Save Draft” button, the
   screen displays the message “You are not allowed to edit this post. “
 * When I try this as admin, the button also reads “Submit for Review”. However,
   when I click it, the post is published. When I click “Save Draft” as admin, I
   am taken to the posts page but the post I tried to save as a draft is not present
   and no error message is given. How can I fix this?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/#post-1563161)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a **fresh** download
   of WordPress?
 * – increasing the available memory?
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842)
 * – reviewing [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/411649](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/411649)
 *  Thread Starter [jcviblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcviblog/)
 * (@jcviblog)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/#post-1563381)
 * Hi esmi,
 * Thanks for your reply. I had not yet tried those things because we have three
   web servers that run WordPress. All are set up identically. I was able to install
   WordPress 3.0 with no difficulties on our development server. I will give those
   things a try and see what happens.
 *  Thread Starter [jcviblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcviblog/)
 * (@jcviblog)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/#post-1563388)
 * I tried all of those items listed and the problem remains.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/#post-1563412)
 * If this is specific to just 1 upgraded install, then it could be that there was
   a problem when the database was upgraded – possibly in the wp_usermeta table.
   Do you have a pre-upgrade database backup?
 *  Thread Starter [jcviblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcviblog/)
 * (@jcviblog)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/#post-1563476)
 * I do. I compared the two wp_usermeta tables and the only difference was a user
   that was in one database and not the other. There were a few more in the wp_options
   tables (about 60ish) but none jumped out at me. Is there something I should be
   looking for?
 *  Thread Starter [jcviblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcviblog/)
 * (@jcviblog)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/#post-1563482)
 * Does anybody have any ideas? This is kind of a big deal.
 *  [otacon4781](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otacon4781/)
 * (@otacon4781)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/#post-1563598)
 * Any updates to this? I’m having the same issue.

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 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [otacon4781](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otacon4781/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/users-cannot-create-posts/#post-1563598)
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