feebleTom

Thanks for your quick response with good news.

I’m using a child theme that I created from the twentytwelve theme, so it’s a distinct possibility that I’ve done something to create the error, but all I’ve done with the plugin is style it a little.

I also get the same error on my local development environment where I’m creating a new theme with underscores (_s) for the same site.

If I come up with a solution, I’ll post it here, but I’m not a php wiz so it could be a while:) And if I’m the only person seeing this, then it’s obviously not your plugin doing it.

Thanks for the quick response.

Thanks, Clearmedia. Your code looks like it should work, but just last night I found a way to do this at http://www.faqoverflow.com/wordpress/28782.html

/* Keep custom post types UI menu off all dashboards except Administrators  */
function wpse28782_remove_menu_items() {
    if( !current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ):
        remove_menu_page( 'edit.php?post_type=your_post_type' );
    endif;
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'wpse28782_remove_menu_items' );

I tried this and it works. All I had to do was replace “wpse28782” and “your_post_type” with my site-specific names, and I was good to go.

BTW, if any of my code gets filtered, it’s all there at the faqoverflow link. I wish there was a “preview” option when posting here.

Thanks again for your reply.

I checked to see if I could make a different user an administrator and possibly get the Edit Category page to display the Name of the category, and guess what! It worked!

So I deleted my original admin username from the new admin user and then put the same admin back in as a new user and problems solved. Don’t ask me how that works

Another thing to note, which I didn’t realize before, is that if I go to a Category index page from the links listed in my sidebar, I can edit the categories individually. Just not from the Category screen going from the Admin Dashboard > Posts > Categories.

I was comparing my Edit Categories screen with another dev site that I have installed locally via XAMPP, and I noticed that the major difference is that the category nameis missing from the table on the right where I should be able to edit categories. It only displays the description, slug and posts.

Here is a link to the site with Twenty Ten active, because that was the default theme when I originally installed WP. Since I had no intention of ever using Twenty Thirteen, I deleted it. All plugins are de-activated.

An important point to make is that this link is to my “development” site, which only differs from the real site by the number 2 in the url. If you go to dd764.org/scuttlebutt/ you will be getting the “production” site on which I haven’t disabled anything.

The dev site is a replica of the production site with only minor differences, not involving plugins. The Edit Category feature does not work on either version.

Thanks for the suggestion. I deactivated plugins and tried it. Then I activated the default twenty-ten theme and tried it. Still no edit capabilities for categories.