Need help getting to "full" administration panel

  • Resolved Timna

    (@timna)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,
    I need help getting to the “full” dashboard view, please.

    Currently, I have a kind of shorter version of the dashboard, like on WordPress.com, but I need to get to the full one, where I will also be able to edit the plugins, codes etc.
    Right now all I have on my dashboard is a very limited list: media, pages, profile, tools – with no real editing options, and am missing stuff like: home, store, links, appearance, tools (the extending one), plugins, settings…

    I have uploaded a print screen of the dashboard here.
    My client’s interface is in Hebrew (right side). I currently have the one with the red bar on top, and would like to have the one with the blue bar (English looks same as Hebrew).
    The one with the red bar is somewhat similar to the dashboard on WordPress.com (left side, English), and I would like to get the one with the blue bar (English looks same as Hebrew).

    Does anyone understand what I mean and can help me?
    I hope I made myself understandable, thank you.

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    From that screenshot, it looks like that account has not been given administrator permissions. There’s two ways of getting this set up, the easy way, and the hard way…

    The easy way:

    Find out who has administrato access (could be the sites developer, another user, etc) and get them to set your account as an administrator.

    The hard way:

    To do this you’ll need access to the database server, and a tool like phpMyAdmin (it’s the most common one out there).

    When you get into the database, look for the wp_users table (and remember that it could have a different prefix to wp_ depending on your set up). In there find the user account that’s meant to be an administrator, and take a note of it’s ID number. Then go to the wp_usermeta table and set this value for the user_id of your administrator, and the meta_key of wp_capabilities:

    a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}

    That wil make that account an administrator.

    Thread Starter Timna

    (@timna)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you! helped a lot.

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