Deactivate all plugins and try, also try to use /wp-login.php
/wp-login.php does the same thing. Times out… then this:
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I haven’t added any new plugins. And how would you deactivate them if you can’t login.
When this happened, I was creating a new posting. It was saved as private. I then clicked clear cache or hit refresh… something like that… then it crashed and went to the error message http://i.imgur.com/sAcwlDt.jpg
Help?
/wp-login
Goes to my 404 page
How do I reset the password to a login page I can’t access?
Try these steps:
– revert to Twenty Twelve theme and see if the issue is theme-specific
– reinstall WordPress manually from a freshly downloaded copy except wp-content. Do not overwrite files/ folders but delete them before reinstalling.
Use FTP or your hosting control panel as you cannot access dashboard.
Backup your site including MySQL database so that you can restore your site in case anything goes wrong.
Thanks Krishna, I was afraid I was going to have to do this. Uuuuuugh
If anyone has any other ideas that are waaaay less time consuming, please feel free to share.
Like, is there anything I can do on my WHM or Cpanel?
Ideas??
Krishna, I tried everything on http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble except reinstalling everything. Nothing worked. Had to re-install. Thanks for the tip on “except wp-content” folder. I’m still kind of new to this, that would have deleted all my stuff pretty much.
Anyway, so I install.
Then it shows this:
http://i.imgur.com/0WJhbQ2.jpg
I check the site and everything is the same as it was before, so I click ok.
Then this shows up:
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Now I’m on hold for 30 minutes because I don’t know why they would give me the option to update the database, shouldn’t they just automatically do that?
Also, the problem was… my config file’s password had changed. I ALWAYS USE THE SAME PASSWORD FOR WORDPRESS (Which isn’t too smart, I know)… but they changed it for some reason. Don’t use Hostgator. I’m on the phone with them every day for my VPS and 90% of the time it is their error – no exageration
AND… fixed. What a nightmare.
Thanks Krishna!
