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Cannot Publish Entries

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When I log in Serendipity Administration Suite, it
says I'm Standard editor, and publish does not appear for entries.
When I check the manage users, it says I'm the Administrator.
In the Personal Settings it is set to publish entries.
Manage Groups I'm the Administrator but Access level is Standard Editor. If I try to change to Administrator, it says "You cannot create users with a higher userlevel than yourself".

I'm not sure what caused this. I added the User Self-Registration plugin, but I added an entry since then which published OK. I don't recall doing anything since then, except deleting an account I created myself, to test the plugin.
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Hi!

You might be confusing two things: Userlevel and Usergroup. Userlevels were there, before Serendipity had free Usergroups. Because old plugins still depended on userlevels, you now had to configure both ones.

In your case, those seem to differ. Even though you are in the "Administrator" usergroup, you only possess "Standard Editor" userlevel. That's not a bad thing, because you belong to the administrator usergroup and thus should have full privileges.

Can you make a screenshot of what you see in the "manage users" interface for your user? What you describe should only happen if the "Allow to publish entries" option is not turned on.

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Well, I am embarrassed. I was all over my admin site looking for the answer. When I went to make the screen shot, I saw
Rights: Publishing entries?
was set to no. I changed it to yes, and I'm good to go. It still won't let me set my level to Administrator, but I guess it doesn't matter?
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When I go to the Manage Users screen, I am the only user listed. This is not good because, there are other users. Is there any way to get the Access Level to Administrator?
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It looks to me, as if you have (at least) two users. One original admin and one user having your name. I guess you log in using your name, what loads a user not having admin rights.

You should log in as the original admin, you created while installing s9y. This account can do anything now, including granting your "normal day account" admin rights.
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blog.brockha.us wrote:It looks to me, as if you have (at least) two users. One original admin and one user having your name. I guess you log in using your name, what loads a user not having admin rights.

You should log in as the original admin, you created while installing s9y. This account can do anything now, including granting your "normal day account" admin rights.
I do log in with the original user name. While I cannot view other users, I can view the user profiles. I am the only "Dave" registered.

I cannot delete users, which is the main thing that I lack.
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Hi!

Once you restrict your own userlevle, you can not raise it back again with s9y. You need to use a tool like phpMyAdmin , edit the serendipity_auhors colum and raise the userlevel colum to "255" for your user.

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garvinhicking wrote:Hi!

Once you restrict your own userlevle, you can not raise it back again with s9y. You need to use a tool like phpMyAdmin , edit the serendipity_auhors colum and raise the userlevel colum to "255" for your user.

Regards,
Garvin
Made me nervous playing with that, but I am happy to report, it worked! Thanks!
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