WordPress “You don’t have permission to do that” error
If you have a fresh install of WordPress with plugins deactivated and no special tweaks, it most certainly should not be telling you that you don’t have permission to do things. If it does:
This is a javascript error. I noticed the glitch when I was trying to create new categories – which is an Ajax function. A helpful user on the WordPress forums discovered the solution:
Go into your wp-includes/pluggable.php file. Find this code, or something very similar to it (mine was slightly different, but most of the lines were exact). Now, make a copy of this file before you proceed, because then if it screws something up horribly, you can fix it.
$cookie = explode('; ', urldecode(empty($_POST['cookie']) ? $_GET['cookie'] : $_POST['cookie'])); // AJAX scripts must pass cookie=document.cookie
foreach ( $cookie as $tasty ) {
if ( false !== strpos($tasty, USER_COOKIE) )
$user = substr(strstr($tasty, '='), 1);
if ( false !== strpos($tasty, PASS_COOKIE) )
$pass = substr(strstr($tasty, '='), 1);
}
Replace it with:
$user = $_COOKIE[USER_COOKIE];
$pass = $_COOKIE[PASS_COOKIE];
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