How to re-gain admin permissions on wordpress site

  • Hi I have a website that I am working on thats in wordpress. My problem is that the web designer that created it gave the owner a login for the site that can change the content but doesnt have full permissions to change the website completley e.g no home page etc..

    The web designer doesnt have the details for this account anymore but I have the owners details. I also have full FTP access to the files on the site, how would i go about gaining the permissions for the account or even retrieving the admin account?

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  • If you have access to the sql database you can use a variety of methods to look at the users table to get your administrator’s account details – you’ll probably have to forcibly reset the password on the admin account from the sounds of it. Phpmyadmin would be my recommendation but there are CLI methods and apparently a plugin called Adminer. I say be wary of a plugin managing the database that the entire site depends on to operate.

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