Title: Login Problems (all else has failed!)
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Login Problems (all else has failed!)

 *  Resolved [roxannew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roxannew/)
 * (@roxannew)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/)
 * Hi,
 * I recently switched from a PC to a Mac and now I can’t login to my blog (externally
   hosted). My blog loads fine, I just can’t access my blog panel.
 * I’m told I have the wrong password. Strangely, when I enter my login name to 
   retrieve my password by email, it says the password has been sent, but then I
   never receive the email. Through my CPanel and PHPMyAdmin, I’m able to see that
   my login name, password and email are in fact correct. However, none of these
   work when I try to login to my blog on [http://www.wordpress.com](http://www.wordpress.com).
   I’ve tried to reset my password (via the MD5 function, followed all the steps),
   it shows my password as being changed, but when I attempt to login, it says I
   have an incorrect password. And I’m aware that passwords and usernames are case
   sensitive. Nothing seems to work!
 * I’ve tried each and every step listed in the article “Login Trouble – WordPress
   Codex” ([http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble](http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble)),
   including the following (none of which have changed anything).
 * 1 Enable Cookies
    2 Disable Plugins 3 New Login File 4 Edit Users Table 5 Problems
   with Password 6 Site URL Redirecting 7 Secure HTTPS 8 Headers Already Sent 9 
   Check Your URL Options 10 Check your Firewall
 * I have now reached “11 If All Else Fails”, and I’m desperate for help! Am I using
   the wrong page to login? Is there any chance WordPress will step in and help 
   me?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/#post-1304344)
 * Your username and password for WordPress.COM and your self-hosted blog are not
   tied together in any way, two completely different systems.
 *  Thread Starter [roxannew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roxannew/)
 * (@roxannew)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/#post-1304352)
 * Here are my server details, in case it helps!
 * phpMyAdmin – 2.11.9.5
    MySQL client version: 5.0.85 I’ve tested my Login using
   Internet Explorer, Safari/Firefox and Opera, to no avail.
 *  Thread Starter [roxannew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roxannew/)
 * (@roxannew)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/#post-1304353)
 * So could the problem be that I’m using the wrong login page? If so, where would
   I find my self-hosted blog login page?
 *  [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/)
 * (@alism)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/#post-1304354)
 * Ok, let’s start from the beginning…
 * WordPress.org allows you to self host your own blog. You manage and install yourself
   and you can customise your own version until your heart’s content. It’s flexible,
   but you bear the full responsibility of maintaining and fixing it if something
   goes wrong.
 * WordPress.com is a hosted service. Upgrades are managed for you, the learning
   curve isn’t quite so steep, but you don’t have as much control over what you 
   do with your blog.
 * A wordpress.org user might have a username and password for wordpress.com (if
   you need an Akismet key for example), but you don’t use those same login details
   if you want to get into your wordpress.org blog.
 * If you’re using PHPMyAdmin to look at your database, it’d suggest to me that 
   your self hosting (ie wordpress.org), so you need to be logging into your blog
   on your own server, ie:
    [http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-admin/](http://www.yourdomainname.com/wp-admin/)
 *  Thread Starter [roxannew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roxannew/)
 * (@roxannew)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/#post-1304372)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks so much! I can now access the login page; however, I must have messed 
   something up in the process, because I see the login page, but there’s no place
   for me to enter my username or password.
 * [http://roxycakes.ca/blog/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roxycakes.ca%2Fblog%2Fwp-admin%2F](http://roxycakes.ca/blog/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.roxycakes.ca%2Fblog%2Fwp-admin%2F)
 * In the process of trying to retrieve my password, I replaced the wp-login.php
   file with an updated copy of wp-login.php (via the latest download available 
   at WordPress.org).
 * Any idea how this could be fixed?
 * Thank you sooooo much!
 *  Thread Starter [roxannew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roxannew/)
 * (@roxannew)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/#post-1304774)
 * A manual upgrade of WordPress fixed my problem! Thank you so much.
 *  [thesoireecafe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thesoireecafe/)
 * (@thesoireecafe)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/#post-1304841)
 * Hello. I’m having a similar problem. I go through GoDaddy and uploaded WordPress
   through their system. I had a lot of issues a couple weeks ago and I’m just now
   getting the patience to come back. I had to erase my current WordPress and then
   download it all over. I have a .COM username and password, but I can’t figure
   out how to retrieve the username and password for the .ORG — I go to my website
   and try to login there (which takes me to [http://thesoireecafe.com/wp-login.php](http://thesoireecafe.com/wp-login.php)),
   but it keeps telling met that I have the wrong username — AND THERE HAVE ONLY
   BEEN 2 usernames that I’ve EVER used and it’s showing that neither of those are
   valid. Can you please help. Thank you so much in advance.
 *  [thesoireecafe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thesoireecafe/)
 * (@thesoireecafe)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-problems-all-else-has-failed/#post-1304842)
 * Oh, I’m so sorry… reverse that. Apparently I can’t figure out the .COM — I’ve
   created 2 .ORG username and passwords before I read this not knowing that the.
   COM and the .ORG were separate entities.

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