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1. MrPeteH
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   On a fresh install of WordPress, the admin user begins with user_level == 0

   This seems rather serious to me.

   It's easy to check:
   

   global $current_user;
       get_currentuserinfo();
       echo "level:".$user_level."<br />";
       exit;

   This was not a problem in 2.3.3; it is a problem from 2.5 onward at least through the current trunk.

   All of my test systems have user level 10, so it somehow gets "fixed" after running a while. However, in the first week of my plugin's use, I have had several reports that my plugin is broken, and I traced it down to this issue.

2. MrPeteH
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   BTW, current_user_can('level_10') works fine.

3. bonaireguy
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   This is still an issue with WP 2.8.5. The default admin user does not have a "wp_user_level" field in the WP database created for him. I worked around it by adding that field to the wp_usermeta table:

   user_id 1
   meta_key wp_user_level
   meta_value 10

   This also fixes the problem with WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.3.1 reporting a "Sorry, you must be logged in and at least a level 8 user to access admin setup" error after you install this plugin.

4. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Related trac:
   http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8317

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