Plugins menu doesn't appear in the admin panel

Question

I\'m having a very simple problem. I\'m new to WordPress and I\'m trying to install a plugin.

Everyone says there\'s a \"plugins\" option on the sidebar-menu in the

Answer 1

I found this post searching for help with a similar issue with a self-hosted WordPress installation -- in this case it was a site that a friend had paid someone to make, but then took them off the work and asked me to help out.

There were several regular menu options missing -- it turned out to be down to a plugin called Admin Menu Editor that the previous web guy had installed to limit the options available to my friend, so they wouldn't mess with things.

In this case I could access the options for Admin Menu Editor by going to http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=menu_editor