Lost admin access to WP blog

  • Resolved reg-nirrab

    (@reg-nirrab)


    18 years ago

    I was advised by several notices on my blog that I needed to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress – 2.5.1 – to remain secure.
    I nearly completed the upgrade process. But having thought I had succeeded, I was wrong. Fortunately, although I had not made a ‘proper’ backup of the database, I had only a few blog entries, so had copied them to a Word document.

    It wasn’t too difficult to then totally remove WordPress (I think), go to my hosting company (Heart Internet), log on to my own domain, go to add WordPress with one click and find that they now install 2.5.1, so I did that, and replaced all the prior blogs by manual copy/paste.

    After hours of messing with trying to update themes (I’ll leave that for another day!) I modified all those little things that make it ‘mine’ reviewing the site in another browser window and hitting “edit” if I found something else to change. All done.

    Logged out, closed browser. Re-opened browser to check it’s all still working fine and it is. But there’s no “EDIT” in the menu below the posts. In my earlier pre-upgrade version, there was “Admin” in the menu in the right-hand column where the Widgets are.

    How do I get back in as administrator???

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years ago

    http://www.barringer.co.uk/blog/wp-login.php

    Add the Meta Widget so you get the login choice in your sidebar.

    Thread Starter reg-nirrab

    (@reg-nirrab)

    18 years ago

    Hello Michael H,

    Oh what a pillock (me).
    I can’t follow simple instructions like “search the forum before posting”

    Sincere apologies. While you were writing that, I found the same answer by searching the forum. Back in now. total success. What an amazingly helpful, speedy response.

    :o)

    ivovic

    (@ivovic)

    18 years ago

    on the up-side, while you were logged out, your site was definitely more secure, as promised 😉

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years ago

    Yes but true security requires DROPping all your databases!

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