Title: Problem editing user roles
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem editing user roles

 *  [acub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acub/)
 * (@acub)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-editing-user-roles/)
 * I’m new to blogging, new to WordPress.
    Trying to build a website for a comunity(
   using wordpress 2.8.2) and I’m still testing it.
 * The site does not have any important content (only some I added fot testing purposes)
   and I recently messed up the user roles using Role Manager.
    For a while, I didn’t
   have any admin user, but I solved that by deleting the *_usermeta and *_options
   tables. I than created a new admin user and was able to log in as administrator.
   I tried to restore the site by importing from a backup file from the previous
   day. As expected, it asked me about the 4 different users i had at that time.
 * The problem:
    I cannot assign any roles to users. I can create new users but 
   they’re still unchangeable and their role is always set to “None”. When I try
   to change their roles it tells me changes have been applied, but all users remain
   unchanged. Under “Role” in the “Users & Authors” section they all read: “None”(
   except the new one, which is “Administrator”.
 * Something else (don’t know if this is normal or not): all users have unchangeable
   names.
 * Any suggestions?

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 * Last reply from: [acub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/acub/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-editing-user-roles/)
 * Status: not resolved

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