Title: Changing Prefix
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing Prefix

 *  [alicethetic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alicethetic/)
 * (@alicethetic)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-prefix/)
 * I have read all the guides, visited blogs, queried Google, the whole lot. I have
   tried several different plug-ins and all the same result, so I now turn to the
   forums.
 * My blog has been defaced twice within 12 (this was wednesday) and since that 
   time I have got everything set back up just as it was, thanks to backups. I watched
   a video on gavnr.com? about steps to take to improve the security of your wordpress
   etc. So I am doing just that. He mentioned using a plugin called wp security 
   scan and I got that updated it etc. But its saying my mysql user doesn’t have
   permission to alter tables. So i manually did it and edited the config.. The 
   blog works but when I try to access my admin panel. I get a message saying I 
   don’t have permission or privilege to access it.. This has been the same result
   with several different guides/tutorials that I have followed.
 * Can there be a simple way of doing this?

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

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-prefix/)
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