Erm…options keeps giving me a 404, exceedingly annoying, please help!

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  hanso · Member · Jul 14, 2006 at 3:05 pm

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  So my friend invited me to contribute with him on his WordPress blog. I wanted to play around with the options…but the Options button keeps giving me a 404 message! Whats up?

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  drmike · Member · Jul 14, 2006 at 3:10 pm

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  Where’s his blog?

  Since no one else is reporting this issue, my guess is that he’s behind a proxy or we’re talking about a WP blog hosted elsewhere. If so, you really need to be over here as this forum is for those blogs hosted here at WP.com and we run a different code base.

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  hanso · Member · Jul 14, 2006 at 3:22 pm

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  Well I don’t know where its hosted, I didn’t make the blog, my friend did and invited me to co-run it with him.

  Whats the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org? I wasn’t even aware of a .org…

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  drmike · Member · Jul 14, 2006 at 3:39 pm

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  FAQ. Different software as well.

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  hanso · Member · Jul 14, 2006 at 3:50 pm

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  Bah…can someone ask on the wp.org forums for me? I don’t have the time atm to make a new account.

  But to make sure, even if you DIDN’T make the blog, you should be able to access the Options page yes?

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  hanso · Member · Jul 14, 2006 at 6:32 pm

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  K, I tried wordpress.org…and they directed me back…here…

  Ok, THIS is the page that appears whenever I click Options on wordpress.com…

  gizzedinc.wordpress.com/wp-admin/mu-plugins/delete-blog.php

  Any ideas on whats causing this?

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  hanso · Member · Jul 14, 2006 at 8:11 pm

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  Ugh, tried everything, restard, different computers, and it doesn’t work on either Firefox or IE. Any ideas at all? What should I do…I can’t change the template or anything…. :(

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  hanso · Member · Jul 15, 2006 at 3:27 pm

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  In case anyone was wondering, I DID manage to resolve this issue. The reason I kept getting a 404 on the Options page was because I was an author, not an admin. Once my friendset me as admin, Options worked, and all the other buttons appeared.

  My suggestions,in order to prevent any future confusion, is to make the button Option invisible to authors who are not admins, just like presentation and all the rest.

  later

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  drmike · Member · Jul 15, 2006 at 8:45 pm

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  Actually it should have been visable in the first place to you since you were just an author.

  I wonder how old a version of WP your friend is using because I know that doesn’t happen in my offsite 2.0.3 sites.

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  hanso · Member · Jul 15, 2006 at 10:41 pm

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  He’s not using the downloadable wp.org program, he’s using the onsite wp.com service.

  But I dunno, I no longer have any problems, and I must say WordPress is by far the most sophisticated blogging system I’ve seen to date, very nice. :)