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1. ronchicago
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   i wish to change my admin ID=1 to another value. i know where to change the value in my db via phpmyadmin but when i do that i lose permission rights to get in the blog. what am i not doing?

2. nasium
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   look in options table or user meta

3. ronchicago
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   yes

   these are default settings i think = 1

   1) wp_user the admin ID = 1

   2) wp_usermeta = there are quite a few entries ID =1

   so, assuming all 1's change to new value?

   3) regarding wp_options = does not look like what i am looking for resides here...

   haven't made any changes just yet. will wait a bit longer in case new info presents itself.

4. LenK
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   If this is for security reasons why not just create a new admin then delete the old one. It's what I did.

5. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   You really, really, don't want to change the ID numbers. Doing so will break many things.

   If you want to create a new admin and delete the old one, that's fine. But don't mess with the ID numbers. They're used many places internally.

6. ronchicago
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   correct, for security. thanks for the advice, makes a lot of sense.

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