johncockman

With newer versions of Advanced Access Manager, the creation of a super-user is necessary in order to make changes to administrative roles. They call it a super-user even though it is just an administrative capability on a single site.

OK now that I am back in, I am able fix the administrative capabilities that S2Member and bbPress broke as is explained here:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/uninstalling-s2member-causes-permission-issue/

I had to install a plugin called “Advanced Access Manager,” create a super-user, and then give my site administrators the “read” capability that bbPress and S2Member had stripped.

I will check about the logs though I suspect that is the first thing the developer looked at.

As much as I would like to blame someone, I agree that I cannot know what combination of variables may have led to the crash. It happened on deactivation of S2Member and so I suspect some kind of incompatibility between S2Member and some other program.

I just heard from S2Member. They say:

Hi John,

s2Member does not restrict access to the WordPress Dashboard for administrators. If you deleted the s2Member folders from the plugins directory, then s2Member as been fully deactivated and it is not affecting any part of your site. If you are unable to login with the s2Member plugin folders deleted, then there is something other than s2Member causing this issue.

You might want to try deleting all folders from your wp-content/plugins/ directory, in case some other WordPress plugin is causing this issue. Otherwise, you’ll need to work with your web hosting company to resolve this, as they can look at the server logs to find out exactly why you’re being denied access.

So, their advise mirrors yours, and I am no further along than when I started.

John

Then may I blame the plugin whose deactivation broke my site?

I didn’t start this thread — it is 8 months old. Here are a few others:

Here is something I just found:

http://spoonjab.com/wordpress-admin-permission-error-s2member/

I am going to try it.

Thanks! I actually did try creating a new Admin but it didn’t work. GoDaddy tried as well. I don’t know why this wouldn’t work.

GoDaddy is my host. They are currently trying to set up another administrative user in my wordpress account in order to reset my settings. Initial attempts to do this failed. My dashboard sees locked. It is not easy, the developer had to submit a support ticket. I am still waiting to hear back about it.

In fact, now that I have deactivated all of my plugins, I have no way to reactivate them without access to my dashboard. Is there no way to do this???

My meta value for my administrative WP capabilities is

a:2:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;s:13:”bbp_keymaster”;b:1;}

which seems to be correct. Yet I still can’t get into my wp-admin dashboard.

All this happened when I deactivated S2-Member. Now I am completely locked out. I have no idea how to get back into my site, and my hosting provider says they cannot help me. I was on the phone with them for a really long time. Can someone please help me?