Cheatin' Huh error message.

[Pamela Cather]

Bill,

I believe Dave my partner was talking to you while I was on vacation. We use the old version of Progress: Gallery. For some reason the slideshow which has worked fine for several months went crazy. He contacted you and you had him switch to using the wp-cycle plugin; having him made a couple of changes in coding to do so. Not sure exactly what they were.

Anyway, I use a plug-in called User Role Editor to restrict the staff to certain pages. When I first started using this plug-in, it gave the staff with the role of ‘editor’ an error message when they tried to add images to the slideshow: Cheatin’ Huh. This error message comes from the option.php. I corrected it by editing and adding the following to the ot-cycle.php:

// this function adds the settings page to the dashboard
add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘add_ot_cycle_menu’);
function add_ot_cycle_menu() {
add_theme_page(‘Slideshow’, ‘Slideshow’, 2, ‘ot-cycle’, ‘ot_cycle_admin_page’);

}

// get the “editor” role object
$role = get_role( ‘editor’ );

// add “ot-cycle” to this role object
$role->add_cap( ‘ot-cycle’ );

I can’t remember for sure but I think these are the only changes I had to make.

Since, Dave changed to wp-cycle, the staff is getting the Cheatin’ Huh error message again. I’ve made the same changes to the wp-cycle.php but this time it is not eliminating the Cheatin’ Huh error message.

Also, while signed in as an administrator, when I go to the plugins page and click on the settings link for the wp-cycle I get the following error message:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks as always for all your help.

[Bill Robbins]

Pamela,

I think I know what may be causing the trouble. When I took the original wp-cycle plugin and incorporated it into the theme, most people used a number system for WordPress roles.
That’s the “2” in this line:

add_theme_page(‘Slideshow’, ‘Slideshow’, 2, ‘ot-cycle’, ‘ot_cycle_admin_page’);

Before I stopped using this slideshow, I did update it to use the more common user roles that are preferable now. Below I’ve pasted the last version of the slideshow that I made. It lets anyone who has permission to “edit posts” have access to the slideshow. You might try updating to that and see if it works better for you.

If I can help, let me know,
Bill

[Pamela Cather]

It seems to me that the easiest way for me to do this is you cut and paste this into the original ot-cycle file and then undo the changes that were made to use the wp-cycle plug-in. Can you tell me the changes you had Dave change as he can’t find the email with your instructions? Thanks.

[Bill Robbins]

The only other change you’ll need to make is to the home.php file. Deactivate the WP-Cycle plugin and then change this line in home.php

<?php wp_cycle(); ?>

to this:

Save your changes and that should let your slideshow work again.

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