Loading ...You: “Pesky spammers filling up my comment moderation queue… this’ll teach them!”
WordPress: “You don’t have permission to do that.”
So it’s more widespread that I first thought, this permissions issue applies when attempting to delete a category, remove a comment as well as adding a category.
Deleting a post or page
From the Mange > Posts or Manage > Page page within the Admistrative back-end:
- Press the Edit button beside the post you wish to remove
- Press the Delete this post button below the post editor and extra features (Optional excerpts, Trackbacks, Custom Fields)
Removing a comment
From the Comments page within the Admistrative back-end:
- Press the Edit button beside the comment you wish to remove
- Press the Delete this comment button within the Advanced region; below the comment editor
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About the Author - Michael Visser is the founder of Visser Labs. He works as a professional Front-end Web Developer, loves Wordpress, Joomla and helping people get more out of their sites.
