Can’t login for admin

  • I have lost my information for loging into my blog. When I go to wp-admin it just keeps signing me in as a registered user of the site and no admin dashboard access…..

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  • Login to phpMyAdmin and change your password for the admin user.

    And then try logging back in.

    Obviously you manage to log in correctly. However, something, or someone, has changed your role/capabilities.
    This can be fixed by manually doing some changes in the database, but it’s not trivial.
    If you try, make sure you first store a backup copy of the database.
    And yes phpMyAdmin is probably the tool you’re going to use to browse and alter the database.

    What Tor says is true. If you have acces to phpMyAdmin, login and go through the following steps:

    1. Backup your database
    2. Go to the table wp_usermeta
    3. Lookup your nickname and the corresponding user id
    4. Check the wp_capabilities row, make sure it has the same user id number as your nickname.
    5. Change the capability to a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}
    6. Go to your wp-admin and check if everything works

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