Title: No plugins or appearance tab
Last modified: June 28, 2018

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# No plugins or appearance tab

 *  [johncronin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johncronin/)
 * (@johncronin)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-plugins-or-appearance-tab/)
 * I’ve been building a blog at work but there is no tab on the dashboard to edit
   the appearance. No plugins tab either.
 * I am running the newspread theme on the latest version of wordpress.
 * They gave me a login, I did not set this up.
 * [Here’s what my screen looks like](https://postimg.cc/image/cyluwif3b/)

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 *  Thread Starter [johncronin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johncronin/)
 * (@johncronin)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-plugins-or-appearance-tab/#post-10441722)
 * also elementor doesn’t work
 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-plugins-or-appearance-tab/#post-10441900)
 * It looks like your user role doesn’t have the capability to handle all the admin
   stuff.
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities](https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities)
 *  Thread Starter [johncronin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johncronin/)
 * (@johncronin)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-plugins-or-appearance-tab/#post-10441929)
 * If our admin is not part of the company anymore how would we change who has that
   role?
 * aka we dont have the admin login
 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-plugins-or-appearance-tab/#post-10442177)
 * If you don’t have another admin user to change things, I suggest you use something
   like phpmyAdmin on your server to change the email address of the admin user 
   to one that you control. (make sure it’s not one already used for a user of that
   site)
    Then you can use the Forgot Password link on the login page to change 
   the password. Be sure to create another admin user once you recover that one,
   so you don’t have to do that again.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-plugins-or-appearance-tab/#post-10442177)
 * Status: not resolved

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