Archive for March, 2011

WordPress admin panels disappearing

Hi,

I encountered an annoying problem in wordpress admin, suddenly my Pages panel disappeared, I didn’t find the problem, and I needed that panel, so I added it manually, but as soon as i did that, other panels start to disappear. I thought it was an wordpress upgrade problem ( just did an upgrade ), but doing a downgrade didn’t solve it, so I start deactivating plugins, ( i mention i used MagicFields and Gravity forms, and i had 6 magic fields wright panels ), and when i deactivated Gravity forms all was normal, then i googled a bit and found that this is because plugins that use ‘add_object_page‘ function ( Magic Fields use it and Gravity forms as well ) make the Pages panel disappear when are more than 11 panels in the wordpress upper admin panel ( the one with Posts and Pages ), and the only solution is to change the ‘add_object_page‘ function to ‘add_menu_page‘, so i changed it in gravity forms and the Pages panel appeared.

This is not recommended, because the plugins might be upgraded and you have to be careful, but this was the only workaround that worked for me.