Login Fails?

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  • ItalyExpat

    (@italyexpat)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    1. Log into your webhost’s control panel
    2. Find phpMyAdmin and open it
    3. Open your website’s database
    4. Click on “wp_users” and you’ll see a list of all users with their email addresses.
    Thread Starter psybertron

    (@psybertron)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    OK, thanks I see the problem – I’ve been hacked – many mysterious users. The lone user that was my admin user, has password and email that don’t work for me …. so, can I juts delete the rogue users, and edit my own details at the DB level?

    Thread Starter psybertron

    (@psybertron)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    In fact I should add – the “wp_users” table (like all tables in this DB) now renamed “wp_lkemwt_users”

    ItalyExpat

    (@italyexpat)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    I wouldn’t worry about the table name, it can vary by installation. If you used your web host’s one click WordPress install, for example, it would create weird looking prefixes like that.

    What you should do is delete all users that you don’t recognize, but do NOT delete your original admin user.

    Is the email address listed for the admin user still correct? If it’s not, update it and then try the forgot my password feature again to reset your password.

    Thread Starter psybertron

    (@psybertron)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Phew, I’m in! Thanks for your help. I know enough phpMySQL to be dangerous. (I shall now do all WP updates …. before I do anything else.) Many thanks for your help.

    Thread Starter psybertron

    (@psybertron)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    And all updates executed OK, and dashboard / post-editing all functioning. Thanks again.

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