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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WTF?? Locked out of site after adding admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wtf-locked-out-of-site-after-adding-admin/)
 *  Thread Starter [mskae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mskae/)
 * (@mskae)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wtf-locked-out-of-site-after-adding-admin/#post-2450414)
 * Hi, DrewAPicture, Red 7,
 * First, thank you both for getting back to me. I will definitely be adding the
   User Role Editor plugin as soon as I change out the broken site for its backup.
   And thank goodness I still had my test site up (living on the net in Private 
   mode)! I should’ve used it, but it never occurred to me that such a simple change
   would create such a maddening problem.
 * I will be making a copy of your advice for future reference, DrawAPicture, as
   I am obviously still green enough at all of this to be dangerous. Any information
   on how to pull myself out of any holes I might fall into is most welcome.
 * And in this case, “fall” really is the operating word: I hadn’t sent the password
   to the person who needed it when it locked up; I never got the chance. I was 
   trying to get into the site using the new admin name/password myself before sending
   him something that might not work.
 * Which, wow… it really, really didn’t. The issue now is, is this a 3.3 bug, some
   sort of incompatibility with Artisteer, or something wholly outside my imaginative
   powers? I literally did nothing strange or unusual in creating the new admin,
   just filled in the blanks, hit “save” and logged out.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WTF?? Locked out of site after adding admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wtf-locked-out-of-site-after-adding-admin/)
 *  Thread Starter [mskae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mskae/)
 * (@mskae)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wtf-locked-out-of-site-after-adding-admin/#post-2450353)
 * Hi, DrewAPicture,
 * Well, though your solution is an excellent idea, it unfortunately didn’t work.
   I say that with the knowledge that I may have done something wrong during the
   cutting and pasting, as the theme is Artistieer-created. Still…
 * Fortunately, I do have a full backup, courtesy of WPTwin, so I can reset the 
   site. The core problem still exists, though. I don’t know what happened to make
   my site inaccessible, and the plugin I need fixed will still need fixing once
   I reset the site. And for obvious reasons, backup or not, I’m somewhat reluctant
   to try to add a new admin again. Or let the geek use my admin name and login,
   knowing I’d want to change it afterwords.
 * Why would my own site lock me out simply because I added an new admin account?
   It’s a bloody important question, since I tend to periodically change my account
   passwords for security’s sake. Because, yes, I am paranoid.

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