Cant edit user

  • I imported all the MovableType entries, for which “Carthik” (me) was the author.
    Now in the WP administration page, I cannot edit Carthik’s properties, since I am looged in as “admin” and Carthik has no password or email assigned.
    Can I change Carthik’s prperties somehow so that he (I) can log in, and start being the author?
    Thanks folks!

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  • I sort of found a way around that. I kept the admin profile. I changed the first name to the name of the imported author. Then, once I’d saved that, I changed the “identify on blog” drop box to display the name I wanted (that first name). Now, all entries are from me. There are still technically two authors, but I don’t think that poses a problem.

    You can also edit everything directly in the MySQL database if that’s your cup of tea.

    I have the exact same problem. Having two users is not really an option. I would prefer making the site admin and the user with all the posts identical.
    I would need to
    a) Change the owner of all posts so far
    b) Change the username of the site admin
    c) Delete the now uneccessary user.
    Is there any other way instead of messing around with the DB?

    b and c works from the backend. for a u need to do some sql stuff in phpmyadmin.

    We will make this easier in the next release.

    use PHPAdmin in cpanel , its very easy to use to edit the database directly.
    I had the same problem after importing the Movabletype posts, I couldnt access my original user name, only the admin username.
    Using PHPadmin I copied the encrypted admin password (which i knew) from the user table and pasted it into the user password field overwriting the password in there.
    Then I logged in using the admin password for that user.
    It worked !
    mellowmoose
    btw PhPAdmin is a tiny link in the manage SQL tables section in Cpanel.
    mellowmoose

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