Title: Auth Key / Salt
Last modified: January 13, 2021

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# Auth Key / Salt

 *  [foulchain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foulchain/)
 * (@foulchain)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auth-key-salt/)
 * Hello!
 * We’ve migrated a site that has run into some problems with a plugin. To make 
   a long story short, the plugin is using the hashing function (and therefore also
   salt).
 * It was not taken into account when the site was migrated, and I suspect the wordpress-
   installation has generated new strings/auth keys. That has caused the plugin 
   to stop working with content created with the old keys, before the migration.
 * I’ve tried installing WP Data Access (Awesome plugin, by the way!) on the old
   site (we only have wordpress-access, no access to hostingspace or SQL), to try
   and find the required rows in the option-table, but they aren’t visible when 
   using the plugin.
 * Do you have any clue as to why they would not be visible? A lot of things are
   visible in the table, but other things are missing, like we’re only allowed to
   view part of the table.
 * Thank you in advance!

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 *  Plugin Author [Passionate Programmer Peter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterschulznl/)
 * (@peterschulznl)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/auth-key-salt/#post-13902422)
 * Hi [@foulchain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foulchain/),
 * Can you access the option table from the Data Explorer? The Data Explorer does
   not limit your query. If an option cannot be found in the Data Explorer, I guess
   it’s not there. Could the option name be hashed?
 * Alternatively, you could export the whole option table and use an ascii editor
   to find the text string you are looking for. You can export directly from the
   Data Explorer (table > Manage > Actions > Export).
 * Does this help?
 * Good luck,
    Peter

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