Title: Cannot access admin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Cannot access admin

 *  Resolved [Rollercoasterider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rollercoasterider/)
 * (@rollercoasterider)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-4/)
 * I was backing up my site as a preparation for updating my plugins. A whole bunch
   seemed to be updated in a matter of days–so there are about 14 at once. I did
   nothing at my site! All I did was go to my cpanel and download a backup and a
   db backup.
    Now I can get to the blog itself, but there are two lines of code
   at the top referencing the simple twitter plugin. But I can’t get to my dashboard.
 * Do I need to disable the the simple twitter plugin via cpanel–and if so, how?
   I do;t know that simple twitter is the only issue, there are additional messages
   when I try to access the dashboard about not being able to modify header information.
 * And why is it doing this–it just seems a strange coincidence that it did this
   immediately following my downloading backups, but how could that have done something?

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 *  [Shaun Scovil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sscovil/)
 * (@sscovil)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-4/#post-3860721)
 * Try renaming your `wp-content/plugins` folder in cPanel > File Manager, then 
   visit your site in a browser, then restore the original folder name. That should
   deactivate all of your plugins at once, so you can start re-activating one by
   one to troubleshoot the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [Rollercoasterider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rollercoasterider/)
 * (@rollercoasterider)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-4/#post-3860752)
 * Thanks, it appears great now!

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## Tags

 * [backup download](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/backup-download/)
 * [unable to access dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unable-to-access-dashboard/)
 * [update plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update-plugin/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Rollercoasterider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rollercoasterider/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-4/#post-3860752)
 * Status: resolved

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