Title: Once Disabled, cannot Enable
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Once Disabled, cannot Enable

 *  Resolved [Clifford Paulick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cliffpaulick/)
 * (@cliffpaulick)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/once-disabled-cannot-enable/)
 * There’s no way via wp-admin to Enable a user that has been disabled.
 * Can enable via PHPMyAdmin: in `wp_usermeta`, delete row where `meta_key = disabled
   and meta_value = 1`.
 * The meta_key should also be namespaced to something less generic.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-user/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-user/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Dekisugi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narin1975/)
 * (@narin1975)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/once-disabled-cannot-enable/#post-5111087)
 * this limitation has been fixed on version 2.0.
 * apologize for late support.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/once-disabled-cannot-enable/#post-5111087)
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