curly wordpress role / capability issue.

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I have two wordpress websites.

Both same PHP version. Same WordPress version.

I’ve a user in each that is set to the role “Administrator”.

I’ve made a custom .php file to do some testing.

if ( ! current_user_can( ‘install_plugins’ ) ) {
echo”Current user cannot install plugins! ?:( <br>\n”;
//$current_user->add_cap(“install_plugins”);
}
else{
echo “Current user can add plugins! :)<br>\n”;
}

One says they can.. one says they cannot. I’m weirded out. Also in the plugins admin page the one that cannot add plugins is missing a few options from the bulk updates drop down and if I go to wp-admin/plugin-install.php page directly I get the error:

>” Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page. ”

When I use the following code both sites show the plugin-install capability in the list.

$capabilities = $current_user->caps;
foreach ($capabilities as $capability => $value) {
if ($value) {
echo $capability . “<br>”;
}
}

What could be overriding the current\_user\_can( ‘install\_plugins’ ) check on the site thats returning false?? I don’t think this is database driven. Could this be a hacked file ? Where would I look?

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