Title: Reset Admin Layouts
Last modified: December 9, 2016

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# Reset Admin Layouts

 *  [Amid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aminteractiondesign/)
 * (@aminteractiondesign)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reset-admin-layouts/)
 * Hey there,
 * when I rearrange my boxes in the admin backend,
    e.g. I drag a box on the page
   edit screen to another location or I customize my form so that it shows custom
   fields, wp will save these settings.
 * Now my question is: How can I reset these settings to the default,
    as if I never
   changed anything here?
 * Thanks

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reset-admin-layouts/#post-8535529)
 * Hah! Good question. I know of no way through the UI other than drag them back.
   There’s no “Reset” button. If this keeps coming up for you, there may be a plugin
   that’ll help?
 * What I do is use phpMyAdmin to remove the saved data. You need to know your user
   ID. The first admin user is usually ID 1. The data is in the user meta table 
   with a meta key of the format `"meta-box-order_{$post_type}"`. So for the page
   edit screen the meta key is “meta-box-order_page”. Just locate and delete the
   entire row.
 * One can do a lot of damage to the DB with phpMyAdmin if one is not careful. To
   be safe, export the user meta table before doing anything just in case things
   go wrong.
 *  [julian_wave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julian_wave/)
 * (@julian_wave)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reset-admin-layouts/#post-9081644)
 * I was going to ask more or less the same question, but I think I have answered
   it myself. Can’t I just make a new user for myself, if I want to check the default
   metabox order?
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [julian_wave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julian_wave/).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [julian_wave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/julian_wave/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reset-admin-layouts/#post-9081644)
 * Status: not resolved

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