Admin user permissions

  • Resolved IrisRosa

    (@irisrosa)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I had to upload an installation to a Windows IIS6 server and after all the proper setup the admin user seems to lack some of its permissions:

    -Can’t manage users

    Users item doesn’t shows up and if I try to load users.php I get a message: “cheating huh?”.

    -Can’t edit or publish new pages

    I can only send pages to revision, and cannot edit any other previously existing pages.

    -Can’t edit Widgets or Menus

    The Apearence Item shows only the options: Themes and Editor.

    Have already tried to disable all plugins and re-enable them. Have tried to create a new admin user via database too. Same results.

    Using WordPress 3.9.1.

    Any idea? Thanks in advance!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    It sounds like your account may have lost admin privileges for some reason.

    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 IrisRosa

    (@irisrosa)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks MacManX, I have tried that but had no success. I solved the problem by switching to a linux server and reinstalling the database from a backup..

    😉

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Ah, perfect. Personally, I prefer Linux servers anyway. 🙂

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