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1. katherinez
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Long story short. Tried to upgrade to latest version. Did not work - had header only and no content. So deleted entire blog directory and uploaded backup. Blog came up perfectly (not upgraded... just back to what it used to be)... BUT... I try to log in as admin with my password and it says it is incorrect! So I saw the part about "email me my password." My email does not work! I had this initially set up for me, so I don't know what email could possibly be in there - I tried my own email and it didn't recognize it. Even the initial password the blog had does not work.

   I can get into my cpanel of course and view all the files. Is there a file in my blog directory I can look at that will tell me the user name or password? I am locked out of my own blog! Thanks!!!

2. joofys
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I assume you are really lost. you will have to manually built the blog again. you should read the upgrade guide on wordpress.org before doing an upgrade.

3. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/

4. katherinez
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   samboll, IT WORKED!!! Thank you!!!!!

5. eyedea
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   samboll,
   thanks for that useful tutorial on how to change the password via phpMyAdmin :) brilliant ;-)

   unfortunately it didn't work for me :-(
   Just upgraded to 2.6 (stuuuuupidly forgot to deactivate plugins beforehand) - and though DB upgrade went fine and site is still up - I can't log into the admin panel.
   (reset password first via WP - nothing, then changed it again via phpMyAdmin - nothing... deleted all files (apart from wp-config and content folder) - and re-uploaded - nothing... took all plugins offline, tried again, nothing....)

   After searching here - and reading all posts I still cannot solve my problem... any other ideas anyone? please..... :'(

6. eyedea
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   update:

   thanks to more searching around and reading up - I found my solution - just to post it here in case it helps someone else out:

   I tried resetting my password in phpMyAdmin - still no luck. Apparently if you log out - which is the same as clearing the cookie - your login will work fine again.
   I simply deleted my cookie - and everything is working fine :-)

7. BobNolin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   eyedea -

   "Log out" of where? the database? If so, how?

   tia - Bob

8. nicprice
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Big thanks to eyedea re cookie deletion, this had been driving me nuts.

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