Title: Admin lost access to admin
Last modified: November 26, 2019

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# Admin lost access to admin

 *  [dougowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougowen/)
 * (@dougowen)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-lost-access-to-admin/)
 * Hi WP gurus,
 * The site – [https://wcyork.ca](https://wcyork.ca)
 * The admin users have lost all their back end access to the WP site. I have access
   to the MySQL admin and have changed my meta to:
 * a:4:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;s:5:”board”;b:1;s:13:”bbp_moderator”;b:1;s:7:”confcom”;
   b:1;}
 * I went as far as changing it to:
 * a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}
 * Still no access. Wondering if someone has a better way to fix it.

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 *  [WebBuddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websprout/)
 * (@websprout)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-lost-access-to-admin/#post-12174997)
 * Are there any administrators account currently in your database (in the users
   table)? If so, you just need to update any admin’s password (use MD5 format) 
   in phpmyadmin then login using the new password.
 *  Thread Starter [dougowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougowen/)
 * (@dougowen)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-lost-access-to-admin/#post-12177150)
 * Thanks for the response.
 * When the plugin made changes it hit all the access tables. The plugin developer
   has fixed the issue and all is well.
 * Plugin that affected the tables – Defender.
 * Thanks,
    Doug
 *  Thread Starter [dougowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougowen/)
 * (@dougowen)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-lost-access-to-admin/#post-12783443)
 * Removed the plugin – found better – Killing notifications on this thread.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [dougowen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dougowen/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-lost-access-to-admin/#post-12783443)
 * Status: not resolved

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