Title: Admin capabilities but not admin Last modified: November 27, 2019 --- # Admin capabilities but not admin * [adriandambrine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adriandambrine/) * (@adriandambrine) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/) * Hi, * I’m the admin of my website. * But I don’t have the admin role. * How can I change that ? * Thank you * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fadmin-capabilities-but-not-admin%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [Lawrence Joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laranz/) * (@laranz) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12180363) * Hi, * Can you be more specific about the issue? What exactly you didn’t able to access? * Try to disable all the plugins via FTP [https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-deactivate-all-plugins-when-not-able-to-access-wp-admin/) and check again, maybe it is caused by any of your plugins. * Regards, * [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/) * (@gappiah) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12180416) * Yeah, as laranz says, you need to be more specific about what you mean by “I don’t have admin role”. What exactly happened? * Did someone set up the website and created a non-admin account for you? * Or have you always had administrative access on the website but something changed all of a sudden and you don’t see some stuff in the dashboard? Of this is the case, what were you doing before this happened? * Thread Starter [adriandambrine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adriandambrine/) * (@adriandambrine) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12180725) * Hi, * Thank you for your answers. * I run this website since 3 years as the same user. * But I never had the “admin” statut as a user. * When I check in “all users”, under the role column, I have “none” (“Aucun” in french). * Can I change that to become officially an admin ? - This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [adriandambrine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adriandambrine/). * [Lawrence Joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laranz/) * (@laranz) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12180937) * Hi, * What were you doing before this happened? Any code changes or plugin install/ update? * If you have access to the Database, you can try this method: [https://tutes.in/how-to-change-wordpress-user-roles-using-mysql-database/](https://tutes.in/how-to-change-wordpress-user-roles-using-mysql-database/) make sure you did it with caution. * Regards, * Thread Starter [adriandambrine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adriandambrine/) * (@adriandambrine) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12181005) * I did not change anything. It is like that since the beginning it seems. * Thank you for the link ! * Thread Starter [adriandambrine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adriandambrine/) * (@adriandambrine) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12181040) * I figured out, creating a new user and giving him admins statut following the method given by your link, that there is no “admin” statut on my installation. * The new user, turned into an admin in phpmyadmin, has now a “none” role. * [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/) * (@gappiah) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12181078) * You may want to reset your user roles and capabilities. As usual, make sure you have a good backup first! * Here’s one plugin to do it easily: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/reset-roles-and-capabilities/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reset-roles-and-capabilities/) * [Lawrence Joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laranz/) * (@laranz) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12181113) * Hi, * If still shows none means, * Maybe the word “Administrator” is translated to “none” Did you translate WordPress using any plugin or using POEdit? In that case please check that also. * Regards, laranz. * Thread Starter [adriandambrine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adriandambrine/) * (@adriandambrine) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12181731) * Thank you for you advices * [Lawrence Joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laranz/) * (@laranz) * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12184548) * My pleasure to help. 🙂 * I hope the issue is solved. 🙂 * Regards, Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Admin capabilities but not admin’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Lawrence Joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laranz/) * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-capabilities-but-not-admin/#post-12184548) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics