Title: Regain full admin access
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Regain full admin access

 *  [2shaynez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2shaynez/)
 * (@2shaynez)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regain-full-admin-access/)
 * Before I knew anything about wordpress I had a developer build my site who made
   it a severe point to use multiple plugins to make sure I would never have access
   to anything. He uses woocommerce, and multiple user role plugins to block me 
   out of everything. even after going into sql deleting all users and adding an
   administrator directly into the database, I still dont have necessary permissions
   to edit any pages or posts, or update wordpress. Any suggestions?

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 *  [Sabinooo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabinooo/)
 * (@sabinooo)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regain-full-admin-access/#post-5730509)
 * Give that developer a high five ? In the face ? With a metal chair ?
 * Honestly, I’m not sure how far you went, for instance with the manual addition
   of an user, that should have been given more information.
 * Did you try turning off all the unnecessary plugins restricting access ? You 
   can disable any plugin of your choice easily, by logging by FTP into your hosting
   accoung, going to (home)/wp-content/plugins/ and in there you manually rename(
   for instance by adding an underscore in the end) the directories of the plugins
   you don’t want, wordpress will immediately turn them off…
 *  Thread Starter [2shaynez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2shaynez/)
 * (@2shaynez)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regain-full-admin-access/#post-5730701)
 * I tried everything from removing all users manually through SQL, adding new ones
   with full admin access (which results in creating an administrator that cant 
   edit any pages/posts, or access users), to disabling all the plugins manually.
   I have a bad feeling he has hidden a lot of code throughout the site to be extra
   sure we’d never gain access. Extortion much?
 *  [Sabinooo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabinooo/)
 * (@sabinooo)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/regain-full-admin-access/#post-5730775)
 * Allright, at this point I can’t help anymore.
 * One last experimentation maybe, the “hey, you never know, sometimes crazy stuff
   works!” kind. Could you consider exporting a copy of your database, reinstall
   a fresh virgin wordpress elsewhere, and import your database in there ?
    There
   would be some steps to take for this to work (before the database importation,
   copy with great care the wp_users and usermeta data for user ID 1, the default
   normal admin, and after the database importation, this would be phpmyadmin time,
   changing the wp_options for the homepage and siteurl, and overwriting all usermeta
   and user options for the user ID 1). I’d say, the changes to have this working
   would be non-nil. And you’d know if there’s a chance to regain your blog admin
   rights, or if you’re really screwed up and you need to restart everything from
   scratch, and only shyly import things one by one :/

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