Permissions error on Options screens

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  • Jonathan Wold

  • January 28, 2014 at 7:56 am

  Hello there! I went to work on the admin screens for a client’s project today and ran into a permissions error when attempting to access a custom Options page:

  “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

  Two things have happened since it was last working:

  – We moved the site and database over to a new server
  – I’ve upgraded up several versions of ACF (I don’t recall exact versions but can probably figure it out)

  I went to the groups interface and attempted to re-assign the group to the particular panel causing the error. No success. Re-assigning worked for other groups to their respective panels.

  What I noticed is that the permalink structure for the panel’s changed.

  Previously, the URL was:

  /wp-admin/admin.php?page=acf-options-nearby-properties

  Now it is:

  /wp-admin/admin.php?page=acf-options-NearbyProperties

  I presume that change may be related to the issue.

  Any ideas? Let me know if you’d like admin access to the installation in question.
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  • Elliot

  • January 28, 2014 at 9:49 am

  Hi @Jonathan Wold

  What code are you using to register the options page?

  Thanks
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  • sirjonathan

  • January 30, 2014 at 1:39 am

  In the above example we’re using:

  acf_add_options_sub_page('Nearby Properties');

  I have that within a plugin class that triggers on init.
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  • Elliot

  • January 30, 2014 at 10:05 am

  Hi @sirjonathan

  It’s possible that running the code on init is causing the issue and it may need to run before hand.

  I’ll add this to the to-do and let you know what I find

  Thanks
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  • sirjonathan

  • February 1, 2014 at 1:29 am

  Thanks for the follow-up, Elliot!

  Would that explain why some options screens setup with that method work and some don’t? (I probably have more than 10 setup) There didn’t seem to be a clear explanation.
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  • Elliot

  • February 2, 2014 at 10:44 am

  Hi @Jonathan Wold

  Perhaps you can post the code for registering all pages, and list which ones work and which don’t.

  Thanks
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  • Jonathan Wold

  • February 4, 2014 at 5:31 am

  It appears that there may be a bug in the sanitization process. Upon closer inspection the only pages having issues were those with a space in the title.

  I fixed it by declaring a slug:

  acf_add_options_sub_page(array(
      'title' => 'Nearby Properties',
      'slug' => 'nearby-properties',
  ));