Regain full admin access

  • Before I knew anything about wordpress I had a developer build my site who made it a severe point to use multiple plugins to make sure I would never have access to anything. He uses woocommerce, and multiple user role plugins to block me out of everything. even after going into sql deleting all users and adding an administrator directly into the database, I still dont have necessary permissions to edit any pages or posts, or update wordpress. Any suggestions?

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  • Give that developer a high five ? In the face ? With a metal chair ?

    Honestly, I’m not sure how far you went, for instance with the manual addition of an user, that should have been given more information.

    Did you try turning off all the unnecessary plugins restricting access ? You can disable any plugin of your choice easily, by logging by FTP into your hosting accoung, going to (home)/wp-content/plugins/ and in there you manually rename (for instance by adding an underscore in the end) the directories of the plugins you don’t want, wordpress will immediately turn them off…

    Thread Starter 2shaynez

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    I tried everything from removing all users manually through SQL, adding new ones with full admin access (which results in creating an administrator that cant edit any pages/posts, or access users), to disabling all the plugins manually. I have a bad feeling he has hidden a lot of code throughout the site to be extra sure we’d never gain access. Extortion much?

    Allright, at this point I can’t help anymore.

    One last experimentation maybe, the “hey, you never know, sometimes crazy stuff works!” kind. Could you consider exporting a copy of your database, reinstall a fresh virgin wordpress elsewhere, and import your database in there ?
    There would be some steps to take for this to work (before the database importation, copy with great care the wp_users and usermeta data for user ID 1, the default normal admin, and after the database importation, this would be phpmyadmin time, changing the wp_options for the homepage and siteurl, and overwriting all usermeta and user options for the user ID 1).
    I’d say, the changes to have this working would be non-nil.
    And you’d know if there’s a chance to regain your blog admin rights, or if you’re really screwed up and you need to restart everything from scratch, and only shyly import things one by one :/

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