Lost Administrator Level!

  • I would really appreciate it if somebody could help us with this problem.
    We were trying to add a user as a contibutor, but instead we accidentally changed the administrator into a contributor and now we cannot enter as administrators, so our blog has no administrator at all! Any ideas on how we can solve this problem?
    Thanks for your help!

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  • https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/
    If you follow that, the table that is edited also has the user_level – just change it to 10 ??

    The above solution will work for WordPress 1.5.2, but if you are using WordPress 2.0, I believe you will need to use phpMyAdmin and change two records in the wp_usermeta table for your admin user.

    For illustration, I assume you use wp_ as your database prefix.

    1. First look at the wp_user table and ascertain the ID number for the admin user you are ‘fixing’.

    2. Then in the wp_usermeta table find the record where user_id is equal to the ID and where the meta_key value is wp_capabilities. Change the value of that field to a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

    3. Then in that same table, wp_usermeta, change the record for that same user_id where the meta_key is wp_user_level. Change the value of that field to level10

    Good luck!

    [edit] WordPress 2.0.2 won’t let you change your Role from Administrator to Contributer. Something funny there ….

    Thanks Michael – I put a guide together:
    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/admin/

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