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# devonia

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [[PublishPress Capabilities - User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus] Admin suicide](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-suicide/)
 *  Thread Starter [devonia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonia/)
 * (@devonia)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-suicide/#post-6876959)
 * Richard
 * Thank you very much for getting back to me.
 * Using FTP:
    – I opened the public_html folder and wp-includes folder on the web
   site. – I opened the functions.php file in a text editor. – At the bottom of 
   the functions.php file, I pasted the above code between <?php and the closing}.–
   I saved the functions.php file back to the web site.
 * At this point, I’m stuck. I cannot re-access an existing Admin, nor create a 
   new user with Admin privileges.
 * What am I missing?
 * Thank you again.
 * Regards
 * Richard

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