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Re: Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-29T23:20:06-05:00

Thanks for expalining that, Francis. Hopefully WordPress will fix it soon now that it's been reported.

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — December 29th, 2011, 11:20 pm

Re: Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-29T11:26:12-05:00

Thank you for the update.

I confirmed this issue. This appears to be a bug in WordPress itself, as you shouldn't be able to lock yourself like that. I've filed a bug report with the WordPress developers here: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19684

Statistics: Posted by Raam Dev — December 29th, 2011, 11:26 am

Re: Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-29T05:52:25-05:00

Unfortunately, S2Member does allow it. And to admit to the world or just the people reading this forum, how stupid I am, I did it twice. I simply was in the All Users page and was changing my users from one role to a different one by clicking on the "select all" check box and I forgot my name was in the list... duh. So, after changing my role, and I received no warning, I was not able to change back or get into any Admin areas.

Statistics: Posted by francisgeo6 — December 29th, 2011, 5:52 am

Re: Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-29T04:44:13-05:00

Glad you solved it. By the way, how did you change your role in the first place? s2Member doesn't allow that. Did you use a plugin like User Role Editor?

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — December 29th, 2011, 4:44 am

Re: Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-28T05:39:05-05:00

Thanks Harty, I went into my Sql Database and changed my Role back to Admin and it worked.

Thanks again.

Statistics: Posted by francisgeo6 — December 28th, 2011, 5:39 am

Re: Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-28T01:43:17-05:00

No.
This will be a core Wordpress issue.
You will probably need to go to your core database at your web host and alter the setting in there.
Do a search on the Wordpress forums...
Or see this link
http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Yo ... set_Script

Statistics: Posted by Harty — December 28th, 2011, 1:43 am

Re: Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-27T16:54:12-05:00

Can I delete S2Member through my hosting accounts FTP Manager and then fix my "Role" and then download the S2 plugin again?

Statistics: Posted by francisgeo6 — December 27th, 2011, 4:54 pm

Re: Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-27T16:48:37-05:00

Do you have any other administrator accounts on your WordPress site? When you have only 1 Administrator, WordPress doesn't let you change the role of that last Administrator to anything else (specifically to prevent you from accidentally getting locked out).

Statistics: Posted by Raam Dev — December 27th, 2011, 4:48 pm

Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

2011-12-27T16:01:29-05:00

Hello,

I accidentally changed my role as Admin to Subscriber and now I cannot make any changes to my website. What can I do to fix this?

Thanks.

Francisgeo6

Statistics: Posted by francisgeo6 — December 27th, 2011, 4:01 pm