webjim

I finally got it figured out:

One of the tech guys at my hosting facility:

Hey Jim,

I needed to disable the mod_security apache module. It views the way the wordpress code works as insecure apparently.

Thanks,

No more warning messages now.

I tried this:

This was tried….no luck

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE an .htaccess in your wp-admin/ directory:

create a text file on your desktop:

put the following inside it:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>

save the file. name it whatever you want

Upload the file to your wp-admin directory.

Rename the uploaded file to .htaccess (with the .)

IF YOU DO HAVE an .htaccess in your wp-admin/ directory:

Edit it, and add the following:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>

save the new .htaccess

No luck once again…

This was tried….no luck

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE an .htaccess in your wp-admin/ directory:

create a text file on your desktop:

put the following inside it:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>

save the file. name it whatever you want

Upload the file to your wp-admin directory.

Rename the uploaded file to .htaccess (with the .)

IF YOU DO HAVE an .htaccess in your wp-admin/ directory:

Edit it, and add the following:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>

save the new .htaccess

I just uninstalled the plug-in and reinstalled it via ftp in binary mode.

That didn’t fix it either…

Now I am trying this:

4) Opened up Plesk – used Database WebAdmin to bring up PHPMyAdmin

5) Click on the User_Meta Table
6) Made sure table prefixes were consistent and correct

7) Saw that I now had an extra line in user_meta named ‘capabilities’ instead of ‘wp_capabilites’ and the value was “subscriber”

Copied long string of information with wp_capabilities that WP put there on the initial instal to the meta_value for the line listed ‘capabilities’ and this changed the permissions from subscriber to administrator.

10) After all this was complete. Everything showed up in working order in my admin panel.

I will let you know if it fixes the problem…

Now I just sent them this suggestion:

For those who get this error randomly, without having upgraded WordPress recently, it’s caused by a database table being corrupted. Log in to MySQL and perform a repair using the syntax
repair table tablename
This fixed mine the first time I tried it.