Admin user permissions

  • Resolved IrisRosa

    (@irisrosa)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    I had to upload an installation to a Windows IIS6 server and after all the proper setup the admin user seems to lack some of its permissions:

    -Can’t manage users

    Users item doesn’t shows up and if I try to load users.php I get a message: “cheating huh?”.

    -Can’t edit or publish new pages

    I can only send pages to revision, and cannot edit any other previously existing pages.

    -Can’t edit Widgets or Menus

    The Apearence Item shows only the options: Themes and Editor.

    Have already tried to disable all plugins and re-enable them. Have tried to create a new admin user via database too. Same results.

    Using WordPress 3.9.1.

    Any idea? Thanks in advance!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    It sounds like your account may have lost admin privileges for some reason.

    Access your database via phpMyAdmin (most hosting providers offer this in their control panel), go to the wp_users table and find the row for your user_login . Note the ID of this row. Now, go to the wp_usermeta table and find the wp_capabilities row for your user_id . Set the value of this row to a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}

    Thread Starter IrisRosa

    (@irisrosa)

    Thanks MacManX, I have tried that but had no success. I solved the problem by switching to a linux server and reinstalling the database from a backup..

    ??

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Ah, perfect. Personally, I prefer Linux servers anyway. ??

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