Accidentally changed my admin status to subscriber

[francisgeo6]

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

[Raam Dev]

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).

[francisgeo6]

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

[Harty]

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

[francisgeo6]

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

Thanks again.

[Cristián Lávaque]

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?

[francisgeo6]

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.

[Raam Dev]

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

[Cristián Lávaque]

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