[wp-hackers] get_user_meta returning empty string

Wed Nov 24 17:35:38 UTC 2010

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Muro, Matthew <mmuro at advance.ua.edu> wrote:

> Never underestimate the power of posting.  The problem ended up being that
> someone using a different $table_prefix other than "wp_" wouldn't have the
> meta_key "wp_capabilities".
>
> Let me know if I'm jumping to conclusions here, but I'm able to reproduce
> the error.
>

That would only happen if you change the table prefix *after* WP is
installed.