Title: TablePress is not showing in the menu of the Dashboard
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Published: February 27, 2019
Last modified: October 18, 2025

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# TablePress is not showing in the menu of the Dashboard

If you can not see the TablePress entry in the left-hand side admin menu of your
WordPress Dashboard, there is usually a small problem with the TablePress access
rights and capabilities. This can sometimes happen during installation or if user
access rights and user roles are edited later, e.g. by another plugin.

To restore the TablePress menu entry, you can try to reset the access capabilities.
For that, please:

 1. Go to `https://example.com/wp-admin/options.php` in your browser, with your site’s
    URL instead of `example.com`. On this “All Settings” screen, you should see a list
    of internal WordPress configuration data, the so-called “WordPress Options”, with
    input fields to change their values. Be advised that this is a powerful tool, so
    please proceed with caution.
 2. Scroll down to the `tablepress_plugin_options` option. (To reach it quicker, you
    could also use the browser search function, by typing `Ctrl/Cmd+F`.)
 3. In the text field next to `tablepress_plugin_options`, find the text `"plugin_options_db_version":`.
    Right after that, there should be a number like `127`. (The exact number depends
    on the TablePress version and doesn’t matter here.)
 4. Change that number to `0` (zero), but please be very careful to not remove the 
    surrounding quotation marks or other characters!
 5. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Save Changes” button.

This process should reset the internal TablePress access capabilities, and you should
be seeing the TablePress entry in the admin menu again.

Note that the number after `"plugin_options_db_version":` that you changed to `0`
will have changed back to its original value again, which is the correct and expected
behavior.

If this process did not restore the TablePress menu entry, please contact us directly
via email (_supportno-spam@mailtablepress.org_) with the details to a temporary 
admin account to your site. We’ll then gladly take a direct look at this issue on
your site.