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Dashboard floods admins with permission notices

Admin dashboard shows repeated 'insufficient permission to manage options' notices even for logged-in administrators.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 14 August 2026 · last reported 17 August 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

After a WordPress core update, some administrators of PowerPress sites see the same permission error repeated across the dashboard, sometimes many times per page.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.