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WordPress login messed up (5 posts)

  1. lrastart
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    This problem is really bad. I don't know how long it has been going on, but it's reaaally bad. When I log into my site, everyone who comes onto the site is logged into me also. When I log out, it doesn't look like anything happened, but I logged out. I have to go to the admin pages in order to login. This is not just me, it's everyone. Something is very wrong but I don't know what. I originally thought it was my login plugin, but I was wrong. My forum login is also the same. Can someone please help me? My website is here

  2. t-p
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Have you tried:

    -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to narrow down and possibly fix the problem . If the problem goes away, activate them individually to find the culprit?

    -switching to the default theme for a moment by renaming your current theme's folder in wp-content/themes. The idea is to force WordPress to fall back to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific issue?
    If you don't have access to your admin area, then access your server via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    - resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

  3. lrastart
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I found the culprit: W3 Total Cache. I'm not sure why it's doing this, but it's messing up the login. Everything is fixed once I deactivated it. I really need this plugin, too. Does this problem happen often with W3 Total Cache?

  4. t-p
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Everything is fixed once I deactivated it. I really need this plugin, too. Does this problem happen often with W3 Total Cache?

    I heard about it, bt I don't know the exact statistics as to how often.

    Clearly, this plugin is in conflict in your case. Alternaely, you may experiment with some other cache plugin(s).

  5. Frederick Townes
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    By default W3TC does not do this. If you submit a bug submission form (from the support tab of the plugin) I can have a look at things more closely so that if indeed there is a bug related to correct settings it can be resolved.

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