[Support request] You are not authorized to change this item

[Sergio]

Good morning,

I updated a 10-year old site with version 3.0.4, I did the manual update every 3 versions to get to the last current 5.7.1.

I checked the plugins and thems but they were all old and no longer maintained, consequently deleted

My problem is in the post categories, I wanted to change and or delete some voices and give me these messages:
“You are not authorized to change this item.
You need higher permissions.
You don’t have permissions to do it. ”

I deactivated all the plugins without solving the problem

I currently set GeneratePress 3.0.3 as the main them but I tried with those of WP but the problem doesn’t change

I have access data like admin, in doubt I created a new Admin account to see if that was the problem

I created a new category and I associated an article of a category that I could not change it and went well, when I went to cancel the old category, I gave me those errors

I searched on the net and something here, but there are various completely different solutions between them, before making disasters I hope someone can help me, thanks.

Versione: 3.0.3

[David]

Hi there,

are there any duplicate Terms in your taxonomies ? eg. a Category term that is also used as a Tag term for example.
As that came up as being an issue when i had a search for the problem you’re having.

Heres one of the topics i found:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-and-tags-for-which-you-need-a-higher-level-of-permission/

[Sergio]

Hi,

This is old site that has been updated to the latest version, not use Gutenberg but the Classic Editor.

I check and in fact there are tags with the same name as the category, I opened the post and deleted the tag, then I went to the page of tags but also here I have the same problems as permissions

I wanted to avoid redoing the site with the various categories, I hope there is a solution

Thanks

[David]

I am not sure if there is an easy solution – the issue sounds the same as that i posted in the above reply.
In that topic the user provided some options here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-and-tags-for-which-you-need-a-higher-level-of-permission/#post-11605745

The main one is to recreate post tags with a different slug – apply them and then remove the old tags.

This particular issue is not Theme related – its a WP core function that controls this.

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