Admin lost capability to edit roles

  • Resolved dmbosman

    (@dmbosman)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    Hi, I screwed up..
    I was editing the capabilities of a role in the Members plugin while comparing it to other roles.
    One of the other roles was administrator. I accidentally edited the admin capabilities and unchecked the ‘edit roles’ cap and saved.. Now I’m locked out of the editing roles part of the plugin. Very stupid mistake, made in a hurry. What to do?

    It sounds lazy, but I don’t feel like deleting the plugin and starting all over again with the 32 roles I already made and edited all the capabilities off. I don’t even know if that could work.
    Is it possible to edit a database in phpMyAdmin or something? One should think it would be possible..

    Hope to hear from anybody soon.
    Cheers,
    Daan

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  • Plugin Author Caseproof LLC

    (@caseproof)

    5 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Daan,

    Members plugin doesn’t have reset capabilities so the only way would be to reset the roles in the wp_user_roles option that you can find in the wp_options table in the database.

    Cheers

    Thread Starter dmbosman

    (@dmbosman)

    5 years, 9 months ago

    Hi @caseproof,

    It worked! I was able to find all the options in the wp_user_roles and I changed the right setting back. Thank you so much!

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