admin user missing capabilities

  • Resolved carlla

    (@carlla)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    I can access the admin panel but the admin user has only author capabilities. Can see posts. Can’t access plugins and settings page.

    This morning the admin account was working pretty normal. The only thing I remember have edited is that I updated the permalinks structure.

    What should I do to restore the admin capabilities? Any ideia about what might have happened?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    13 years, 7 months ago

    It sounds like your account may have lost admin privileges for some reason. It could have been a plugin, an accident, server hiccup, but it’s hard to tell for sure without detailed logs.

    Access your database via phpMyAdmin (most hosting providers offer this in their control panel), go to the wp_users table and find the row for your user_login . Note the ID of this row. Now, go to the wp_usermeta table and find the wp_capabilities row for your user_id . Set the value of this row to a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}

    Thread Starter carlla

    (@carlla)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    I tried what you said but it didn’t work =/ admin still has author capabilities. Seems the wp_capabilities was ok, exactly as you typed, no changes there.

    I have another blog running at the same server which has a plugin to control author capabilities. I wonder if this problem might be a conflict among their plugins (make any sense?) even though they have different database. I have already tried to turn off the plugin on the second blog but nothing changes.

    what else do you suggest?

    Thread Starter carlla

    (@carlla)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Today I enter as ‘admin’ again and the all painels and all menus was there. I didn’t do anything and now I have the admin capabilities again. What crazy =z

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