Title: Can't update plugins or delete posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Can't update plugins or delete posts

 *  [zechmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zechmann/)
 * (@zechmann)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-plugins-or-delete-posts/)
 * I’ve been having troubles with admin permissions recently. First, I couldn’t 
   add or remove plugins. Second, I couldn’t log into the admin area at all. And
   now most recently I can’t seem to delete posts, update plugins or use the admin
   panel for WP Super Cache. **Anyone know any reason why?**
 * With deleting posts & updating plugins, the options just aren’t there. With the
   WP Super Cache admin panel I get this error , “You do not have sufficient permissions
   to access this page.” — which was what I got previously when I couldn’t log into
   the admin area at all. This is what we did to fix that problem: [http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/03/28/wordpress-error-you-do-not-have-sufficient-permissions-to-access-this-page/](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/03/28/wordpress-error-you-do-not-have-sufficient-permissions-to-access-this-page/)
 * Thanks for any tips!!

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 *  [Borko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media-x/)
 * (@media-x)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-plugins-or-delete-posts/#post-4237574)
 * Using PhpmMyAdmin (or another MySQL management tool), first backup your database.
   Then navigate to your wp_usermeta table and locate the meta_key called “wp_capabilities”
   for your user_id. Change the meta-value for this record to:
 * `a:1:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";}`
 *  Thread Starter [zechmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zechmann/)
 * (@zechmann)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-plugins-or-delete-posts/#post-4237731)
 * it was set to
 * a:1:{s:10:”subscriber”;b:1;}
 * and I changed it to
 * a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;}
 * but nothing happened? Do i get reset something or could it not have fixed the
   problem?
 * edit: SCRATCH that, I think I matched up the ids wrong and my username has always
   been set to admin… I have a lot of capabilities like posting and and adding/removing
   plugins. It’s just somethings like deleting posts, etc.

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## Tags

 * [delete posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/delete-posts/)
 * [insufficient permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/insufficient-permissions/)
 * [update plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update-plugins/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [zechmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zechmann/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-update-plugins-or-delete-posts/#post-4237731)
 * Status: not resolved

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