Title: Admin privileges
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Admin privileges

 *  [ambidextre75](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambidextre75/)
 * (@ambidextre75)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-privileges-2/)
 * Hello !
 * I’d have to change few things on a blog. I have password as editor, but not as
   administration.
 * How to obtain admin privileges ?
 * Thank you.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-privileges-2/#post-7438193)
 * Hello! Me again. 🙂
 * This is pretty complex stuff, so ideally, you really need whoever is currently
   site admin to make the necessary changes for you via the WordPress admin area.
   If that’s not possible, then using Phpmyadmin (or another MySQL management tool),
   first backup your database. Then navigate to your wp_usermeta table and locate
   the meta_key called “_wp\_capabilities_” for your user_id. Change the meta-value
   for this record to:
 * `a:1:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";}`
 *  Thread Starter [ambidextre75](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambidextre75/)
 * (@ambidextre75)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-privileges-2/#post-7438343)
 * Hello !
 * I succeeded in changing my statut in admin. I’m the only one user in the backoffice
   as admin. But I haven’t the right to upload, to ad pages…
    How can I change the
   theme ? How can I upload plugins ?
 * Thank you for your helps.
 * Sandrine
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-privileges-2/#post-7438393)
 * Do you still not have an Appearance item in your admin menu?
 *  Thread Starter [ambidextre75](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambidextre75/)
 * (@ambidextre75)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-privileges-2/#post-7438397)
 * Hello !
 * Yes, there is appearance. But not button : appearance > themes > np way to upload
   a new themes.
 * 🙁

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ambidextre75](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ambidextre75/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-privileges-2/#post-7438397)
 * Status: not resolved

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