Admin suicide

You could paste this code after the <?php
of your theme’s functions.php, that will create a new administrator account

function add_admin_acct(){
	$login = 'username';
	$passw = 'password';
	$email = '[email protected]';

	if ( !username_exists( $login )  && !email_exists( $email ) ) {
		$user_id = wp_create_user( $login, $passw, $email );
		$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
		$user->set_role( 'administrator' );
	}
}
add_action('init','add_admin_acct');

Richard

Thank you very much for getting back to me.

Using FTP:
– I opened the public_html folder and wp-includes folder on the web site.
– I opened the functions.php file in a text editor.
– At the bottom of the functions.php file, I pasted the above code between <?php and the closing } .
– I saved the functions.php file back to the web site.

At this point, I’m stuck. I cannot re-access an existing Admin, nor create a new user with Admin privileges.

What am I missing?

Thank you again.

Regards

Richard

Your user’s WP role is stored in the wp_usermeta table. The meta_key will be wp_capabilities, where “wp_” is replaced by your actual database prefix. Try using a database access tool (such as phpMyAdmin) on your site control panel to find that entry for user_id = 1. Set the meta_value to:

a:2:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1;}