Administrator no longer around

  • Hello, is there any way to get administrator role assigned to me for our website? The person who designed it is no longer around and I am now running it, but I don’t have any details about logins for him at all. Any help gratefully received!

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  • There is a hack if you have phpmyadmin access. I assume you have so. Following steps can give you administrator role.
    1. Backup your database (This is important!!! if anything goes wrong you can restore the DB)
    2. Check wp_users table and find your user ID.
    3. Check wp_usermeta table and find meta key wp_capabilities of that user ID.
    4. Meta value might be something like “a:2:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1;}” without quote. (You must have some other text than s:13:”administrator”. )
    5. Change that text to s:13:”administrator” and keep other string as it is.

    Login with your user and I think from now on you are the admin of your site.

    Let us know the update.
    Cheers.

    Thread Starter dbickley2015

    (@dbickley2015)

    Thanks, will give it a try

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