cubehouse

Many many many thanks to wkor for the guidance.

This wasn’t that simple for me!

For starters, everything was never working because I had a WP_Object cache running, so any changes were still in memory – DOH!

Eventually, after copying my custom user and usermeta table to where they *should* be, deleting the lines from wp-config.php and destroying the heck out of the custom tables to make sure they weren’t being used at all (I backed up… a lot)…

I changed the {blog}_options table to have the new capabilities (*sniff* my custom capabilities gone – worth the sacrifice since they were a mess though).

Then made a new admin and made that admin modify my other admins to be administrators (yeh, it’s stupid, but I’ve been having major problems getting my admins to log in again).

Anyway, follow wkor’s advice with some slow careful steps, making sure you back-everything-the-heck-up. I was at it for a solid 2 hours with my admin account not being able to log in, having to make more accounts, modifying files in the admin to let myself temporarily back in… I’m over the moon my website is now normal and not a massive hack again. No custom tables. Nada. No hacks. All in one prefix. Beautiful.

Hi,
Hate to bump, but I’ve been having this problem.

I’ve deactivated *every* plugin, retinstalled WordPress, loaded the default 3.0 theme, loaded a different theme, checked my WordPress memory etc.

It all seems to boil down to permissions. Now, I’m using a custom user and meta table as defined by:
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’, ‘blog_users’);
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE’, ‘blog_usermeta’);

Is this the root of my problems perhaps?