‘change footer text’ -"rebranding WPMU" siteadmin section dissappears

I installed the plugin named, "rebranding WPMU". I was using its "change footer text’ tool to see how that changes the admin area. however, when i entered some text and saved the options, it seemed to change some of my admin permissions so that I do not see site -admin section in the left part of my admin area (below the dashboard) at all. When I paste the url to the options page into a internet browser it gives me a message similar to "You do not have permission to access this page".

I am using WPMU 2.8.2 and since those who use 2.8.1 do not seem to have faced this issue, may be it shows up with my version only?

Would appreciate any help

  • updateag
    • New Recruit

    Ok, I found the issue. While working with that plugin, i accidentally deleted ‘admin’ from the Site Admins section on the options page. And so while updating the footer, I also removed all administrators on the site. So this is not related to the plugin in anyway.

    If at all you have had the same problem, here is how to fix it…

    If by chance you have any other username that is a site admin (very low chances), log in with that username go to options and then add ‘admin’ to the site admins field…

    If there is no site admin (which will be the case in most situations) using phpMyAdmin (or any other tool) in the wp_sitemeta table of the database, set the site_admins field to "a:1:{i:0;s:5:"admin";}"

    (the s:5 stands for length of the string admin, i believe)

    http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/11430