How to find out if we are Admin or not?

  • Hi there, the website I am working on is: https://www.byappointmentafrica.com. Log in URL is: https://byappointmentafrica.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fbyappointmentafrica.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

    I wanted to install a Plug In to be able to put in some SEO Meta Data, such as the Meta Tag description snippet, the Page Titles and the Image Alt texts. I was interested in Yoast.
    The only issue was, when logged into the www.remarpro.com site developer dashboard, there was no Plug In option showing in the left hand Dashboard.
    After 2 days of research I figured that this was maybe because the Plug In option needed to be enabled in the Admin General Settings. However, am unable to find the Admin dashboard – which my research led me to believe is because that this site is a subfolder on a network and we are not an admin. But we do not know who the network admin is, so that they can enable Plug Ins for us!

    How do we find out if we are Admin, and if not, who is?

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  • If you are not admin, you cannot see other users. But if you have the access to your database, then you can see which user is admin through phpmyadmin.

    If you want to become an admin, then do the following to your database
    There is a table called wp_usemeta. In it, there is a setting for your admin user’s priviledges. You’ll find a field that contains something like “a:1:{s:6:”author”;b:1;}”, and you want to change it to be “a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}”. (not including the quotes).

    Remember to keep a backup of your database when things go wrong.

    Thread Starter lucypineapple

    (@lucypineapple)

    How do I know if I have access to my database? (Sorry, am new and basic at this)

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