Title: Help…can’t login
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help…can’t login

 *  Resolved [smfadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smfadmin/)
 * (@smfadmin)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helpcant-login/)
 * Howdy…I’ve read some posts about this problem, but can’t login. It doesn’t tell
   me the username or password is wrong. It just refreshes the page and nothing 
   happens. I can’t login to the admin panel or the public facing site. I changed
   my password in the database, but that didn’t work. I think I’ve been hacked already.
   I just finished the site 2 days ago and I’m getting a ton of spam registrations.
   Now I can’t get in. What a nightmare. Any ideas for getting control of my site
   back and then protecting it?

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 *  [Derek Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valendesigns/)
 * (@valendesigns)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helpcant-login/#post-1131163)
 * Did you make sure that when changing your password in the db that you set the
   field to md5 before saving it?
 *  Thread Starter [smfadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smfadmin/)
 * (@smfadmin)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helpcant-login/#post-1131169)
 * Yeah, I did that.
 * It looks like this must have been a cookie issue with Firefox. I tried Explorer
   and I could get in. In Firefox it was redirecting me to the wp-admin login page.
   When I tried to login it would just redirect me each time. I thought it might
   be a cookie issue, but could not find where to clear that in Firefox (Feeling
   dumb here!). Tried Explorer and I got in.
 *  [Derek Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valendesigns/)
 * (@valendesigns)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helpcant-login/#post-1131181)
 * do you have js turned off in FF with the web developers add on?

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 * [can't login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cant-login/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Derek Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valendesigns/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helpcant-login/#post-1131181)
 * Status: resolved

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