Admin rights seem to be gone

  • I’m trying to help a friend with her blog and am coming up with nothing. She recently used the auto upgrade to upgrade to WP 3.0. In the process, she seems to have lost all admin rights. If you look at users in WP, it says she’s admin….but if she posts, it doesn’t have a “Publish” button, just one that says “Submit for Review”. If she tries to approve comments, they turn red and stay un-approved. Plugins cannot be deactivated. I’ve checked her users table via PhpMyAdmin, and she is the only user. I’ve already deleted all WP files (except wp_content) and reinstalled, still the same. HELP! Does anyone have any ideas of what is going on, and how to fix it?

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  • I’ve already deleted all WP files (except wp_content) and reinstalled,

    wp_content isn’t a WordPress table, but if you did DROP the WordPress tables, and then reinstalled, you should be able to specify a user name and password that will have the administrator role attached.

    Thread Starter amomandherblog

    (@amomandherblog)

    Ok, this seems promising. Is there directions somewhere for how to do that (I’m no PhpMyAdmin expert, but I CAN follow directions). And will that lose the template, etc? I have it backed up, so that’s not tragic, but it would be good to know what I’m dealing with ahead of time.

    Thread Starter amomandherblog

    (@amomandherblog)

    HELP! Which tables should I drop? Everything? Or is there something specific?

    The Database Description article describe the tables that you would need to DROP using phpMyAdmin.

    Another option is to change the $table_prefix in wp-config.php and it will install WordPress using that new prefix.

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