Title: Admin problems Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Admin problems * [fbendz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbendz/) * (@fbendz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/) * Hello! I have two problems with the admin role in my blog. To save space I post them as one question. I hope that is OK. * Background: I’ve installed WordPress 2.0.4 using Fantastico on a Cpanel account and then upgraded to 2.0.5 using the instructions provided on WordPress.org. I did not use the name “Admin” for the administrator but rather used another login name to make it more difficult for hackers. * First problem: I found that the admin name did not display properly. I checked in the MySQL database and found that the admin displayname was set to . I changed it to Admin, which I felt was safe due to the Admin having another login name. I searched the php pages and did not find a match for . What may have caused this problem? Is it a bug in WP or did Fantastico set that name? * Second problem: I’m using the function wp_list_authors to display authors in the sidemenu: * `wp_list_authors('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0');` * This works fine for all authors but the admin, who’s name is not displayed at all. It just says >> (2) when it should say >> Admin (2). (Remember that the display name for admin is “Admin” and that I’m using another login name. * I thought I located the bug in the function list_authors where one line reads( in part): * `($exclude_admin ? "WHERE user_login <> 'admin' " : '')` * Since my admin’s user_login is NOT “admin” I figured that was why it just displayed blank, but when I changed it to the correct name and uploaded the php file (template- function-authors.php) it still displays blank. Any idea why? * I could not find any posts regarding any of these problems when I searched the support database. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Thread Starter [fbendz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbendz/) * (@fbendz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/#post-474031) * I solved the second issue myself. ‘hierarchical’ is not a parameter for the function in question. Removing the parameter removed the administrator from the listing. The first issue is still unresolved. * [jackosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackosh/) * (@jackosh) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/#post-474032) * 1) never change anything in the database.. ever. 2)`wp_list_authors('sort_column =name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0&exclude_admin=0');` * you need to include the “exclude_admin” attribute, because wp sets this to 1 ( true) by default. Again, there is no “bug”. * Thread Starter [fbendz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbendz/) * (@fbendz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/#post-474033) * I did not quite solve the second issue actually. When I add “&exclude_admin=0” to the function, it once again displays as no name with 2 posts. * Thread Starter [fbendz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbendz/) * (@fbendz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/#post-474034) * jackosh, why does the admin display as having no name? * [jackosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackosh/) * (@jackosh) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/#post-474035) * consider logging in ad the admin account and clicking “users”. try the drop-down menu that says “display name publicly as: XXXXX”. * again, never change anything in the DB. if there was a “bug” that big, you wouldn’t be the only person experiencing problems with it, and it would be fixed by now. * [jackosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jackosh/) * (@jackosh) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/#post-474036) * PS you should revert the DB back to the way it was before you changed things around. * Thread Starter [fbendz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbendz/) * (@fbendz) * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/#post-474038) * OK, I changed it back to , set the nickname to Admin and now the name shown in the list is Admin. However, the link in the sidemenu is to a non- existing archive page /authors/. I guess this topic is covered in another post. How do I fix it? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Admin problems’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [wp_list_authors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_list_authors/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [fbendz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbendz/) * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-problems/#post-474038) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics