Title: admin user missing capabilities
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# admin user missing capabilities

 *  Resolved [carlla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlla/)
 * (@carlla)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-user-missing-capabilities/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-user-missing-capabilities/#post-1650237)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlla/)
 * (@carlla)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-user-missing-capabilities/#post-1650372)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlla/)
 * (@carlla)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-user-missing-capabilities/#post-1650463)
 * 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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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [carlla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carlla/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-user-missing-capabilities/#post-1650463)
 * Status: resolved

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