Watch this video for a step by step process on how to add an admin user to the WordPress database from phpMyAdmin
Steps to add an Admin user to the WordPress database from phpMyAdmin:
- Log in to cPanel.
- Navigate to the Databases section and click on phpMyAdmin.
- Choose your database. It might be possible that you have multiple databases in your phpMyadmin.
So to find the appropriate database name just follow these steps:
- On the cPanel dashboard, click on File Manager.
- Go to the public_html folder and click on wp.
- On the right side, you will get files and folders in that, right-click on the wp-config.php file and click on the view option.
- In this section, you will see the database name.
- Now, go back to phpMyAdmin and click on the databasename_users table. In our case, the database table name is this.
- Click on Insert.
- Fill the required information in the mentioned fields.
- In the user_pass dropdown, select MD5.
- Click on Go.
- Click on the databasename_users table.
- As you can see the recently added record with ID. In the next step, we will use this id in the user_id field.
- Select the databasename_usermeta table and click on Insert.
- Enter the id of the user which we have created in the previous query.
- In the meta_key textbox, enter the databasename_capabilities. In our case, meta_key is this.
- In the meta_value textbox add this code: a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;s:1:”1″;}
- Again in this section, enter the user_id.
- In the meta_key textbox, enter the databasename_user_level. In our case, meta_key is this.
- In the meta_value textbox, enter the value as 10.
- Click on Go.
Now, follow the steps to check the newly added admin user in WordPress:
- Log in to WordPress with a newly created username and password.
- Click on Users.
- As you can see the newly created username with Administrator role.
That’s how you can add an admin user to the WordPress Database from phpMyAdmin.
