{"id":1152,"date":"2017-11-29T23:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2017-11-29T23:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T22:06:38","slug":"definitive-guide-to-restoring-admin-rights-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/2017\/11\/29\/definitive-guide-to-restoring-admin-rights-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Definitive guide to restoring admin rights in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many out there have experienced the same as I; having lost access to admin functions in WordPress. Here&#8217;s my case:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>working login-account for the admin-interface<\/li>\n<li>just not being able to manage user accounts or manually upgrade to newer versions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many solutions revolve around configuring your account to have admin rights again or to add a whole new account altogether. The account is supposed to have the administrator role again.<\/p>\n<p>But what if just this administrator role has been compromised?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re able to, download the plugin &#8216;Capabilities Manager Enhanced&#8217; and install it via your FTP client. Next activate it in the admin functions of WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Now, somewhere in the menu bar, a new entry should appear, titled &#8216;Capabilities&#8217;. When you check out the configuration of the Administrator role, you will find many checkboxes cleared. Simply select them all and apply the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Instant profit. This litteraly took me years to figure out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many out there have experienced the same as I; having lost access to admin functions in WordPress. Here&#8217;s my case: working login-account for the admin-interface just not being able to manage user accounts or manually upgrade to newer versions Many solutions revolve around configuring your account to have admin rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}