I haven't logged in to my blog for about 10 days, so imagine my surprise when I logged in this morning and have found that my account has been demoted! I don't have posting permissions, I can't adjust any settings, all I have access to is Dashboard and Profile! This is my own blog on my own server, anybody have any idea how I can reset that and give myself back top level permissions?
Lost my admin permissions!! (4 posts)
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teach42
Posted 2 years ago # -
I had a similar problem a while ago, I think it's due to something not being quite right in the database.
Has your host made any changes to the database or your wordpress installation? For that matter, have you?
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Posted 2 years ago #Not that I know of. Do you have any idea how you fixed it?
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Well, the way I fixed it might not be the way you want to go about it, since it was a white-knuckle ride from start to finish!
You might want to check out this solution first:
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/03/28/wordpress-error-you-do-not-have-sufficient-permissions-to-access-this-page/But what I did was to make a backup of my database. You'll need to use phpMyAdmin's 'Export' utility to grab your database.
Then I deleted everything -- and that's the scary part. I got rid of all the files and the database itself.
I then re-installed wordpress as if it were a completely fresh install.
Then I re-imported the important tables back into my databse. So, from the fresh install, I emptied every table except for options, users and usermeta. Then, working with the exported backup from the old database, I re-filled each table with my old posts, comments, postmeta etc.
I've kept this deliberately brief so it'll only make sense if you're familiar with the wordpress database and phpMyAdmin -- don't attempt it if you're not!
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