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I am trying to create a theme options menu item for my custom theme. However, when I add the following piece of code in the functions.php file...

add_menu_page('Page title', 'Asteria', 'manage_options', 'ThemeOptions', 'my_magic_function');

It gives me the following error when clicking on the menu item...

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

The entire folder, and all contents are 777'd. I am logged in as an administrator. I have tried this on 2 different servers. One of the servers is running a network of blogs (the preferred server), the other is just a single blog setup.

Any ideas on where I went wrong?

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    Can it be something in the my_magic_function function? Your code works for me if I hook it to the right action (admin_menu).
    – Rob Vermeer
    Dec 23, 2011 at 22:52
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    Any chance you can post the my_magic_function code and the action it's hooked to?
    – brandwaffle
    Dec 24, 2011 at 6:38
  • You need to add that page inside a callback on admin_menu as is shown in the example on the codex page.
    – t31os
    Dec 24, 2011 at 11:39
  • Ah-ha, I must have skipped over this. Thanks!
    – Josh Dura
    Dec 24, 2011 at 14:46

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Theme Options should use the edit_theme_options permission, not the manage_options permission. The former is the permission intended for editing Theme options; the latter is the permission intended for editing site options.

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  • Perfect! It ended up being a combination of using the admin_menu hook (I was just calling a random action before) and the edit_theme_options permission. Thanks a ton for the help!
    – Josh Dura
    Dec 24, 2011 at 14:45

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