Title: wp_users user_level
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wp_users user_level

 *  [crash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crash/)
 * (@crash)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_users-user_level/)
 * Hello
 * Right now, the user_level field in the wp_users table is typed as unsigned int.
 * Does anyone know of any reason why I cannot change this to signed int, and populate
   certain users w/ user_level=-1?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_users-user_level/#post-217227)
 * Why don’t you want to change it through WP’s interface under the “Users” tab?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_users-user_level/#post-217262)
 * I would imagine the devs did not anticipate whatever the need you have is for
   setting user level to a negative value. Is there a specific purpose for it?
 *  Thread Starter [crash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crash/)
 * (@crash)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_users-user_level/#post-217263)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35979](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35979)
   🙂
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_users-user_level/#post-217271)
 * Well, you can alter the table if you’d like; I suspect this is not what you’re
   looking for, though I don’t know fully what your goal is.
 * I don’t know if this helps, but consider it a bit of indirect rumination that
   may trigger something… There is an unused column in the users table: user_status.
   I say unused because the only place it seems to exist in the source is the table
   creation schema.

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