Title: Administrator lockout
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Administrator lockout

 *  [mrussell49](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrussell49/)
 * (@mrussell49)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/administrator-lockout/)
 * I am unable to login as administrator at my blog. Whenever I enter my admin user
   name, it takes me to a different user with a setting of 7. This eliminates several
   several options, including plugins and changing the presentation.
 * How do I get back to my administrator status?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [lunabyte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lunabyte/)
 * (@lunabyte)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/administrator-lockout/#post-373800)
 * Takes you to a different user?
    As in there are two users with the same username
   registered?
 * Odd.
 * As a quick fix, you could go into phpMyAdmin, get into the user table and modify
   your admin username from whatever it is to something slightly different for a
   minute.
 * (example, change AdminUsername to AdminUsername33), and try logging in with what
   you changed it to.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/administrator-lockout/#post-373802)
 * wp_users, the first user. Look along and you’ll see ‘7’ as user_level.
    Edit 
   that table. [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/)
   has something which may help to guide you.

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 * [administration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/administration/)
 * [administrator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/administrator/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/administrator-lockout/#post-373802)
 * Status: not resolved

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