• Yesterday I installed the free plugin better-wp-security.4.6.10 in pursue of greater protection, and while setting things up I got locked out.
    I’ve followed instructions given to re-gain access thru phpMyAdmin on c-Panel and it didn’t work.
    Is there any other solution?
    Thanks!

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  • Rename better-wp-security to better-wp-security-old using ftp or the file manager your host provides.

    Thread Starter iamprimus

    (@iamprimus)

    Thanks for the reply kmessinger, I did something similar renaming it as better-wp-security2 and it did not work. I ended up deleting the plugin file, and even though… it keeps placing https on the URL bar result after I hit Enter when I add /wp-admin to the domain name in the search.
    I don’t have that httpS service in order to access to my Admin session. All I need is to get around that encryption status, so I will be able to sign in.
    Do you have any idea?
    Thanks in advance for your support.

    Did you uninstall the plugin first?

    Check your .htaccess file. It should have nothing in it from wp-security.

    Thread Starter iamprimus

    (@iamprimus)

    I couldn’t uninstall the plugin first… I was locked out. I’m not savvy on this, if there is another way to do it out of the Wp-Admin area, I don’t know how to do it.
    Indeed… there is nothing on .htaccess file at all.
    Thank you!

    Sorry you are having troubles. Have you posted and read the entries here, https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-wp-security

    Can you post a url please?

    Thread Starter iamprimus

    (@iamprimus)

    I don’t have httpS service for my login and every time I try to do so by adding /wp-admin to the site URL, it gets forced to https and the result is the following link

    https://www.successpuntocom.com/404.html

    Could you possibly have the solution for this?

    Thanks!

    Talk to your host. It seems you should be able to turn off https with your cpanel.

    Thread Starter iamprimus

    (@iamprimus)

    Already did that… and I went through three different specialists from them.
    They could not figure it out.

    My thoughts on this…

    This is supposedly a good tool that helps you increase security on your WordPress site.

    Even though my site was working flawlessly for more than two years straight, up to the moment I found out about this plugin, I decided to give it a try… it sounded attractive!

    Having two versions, the one FREE I guess is made to give you a taste of its wonders and entice you (seducing you… but not pushing you) to buy the paid version.

    Therefore, the complexity level at every aspect, has to be incremental from one version to the other… in other words, it shouldn’t be a pain to get rid of it (at least on the FREE version), in case you decided not to use it… even if you mess everything in setting it up, regardless of whatever training is offered to properly use it.

    As a plugin itself (at least the FREE version), it shouldn’t take over the site, not even with the will of the site owner… much less without it. That shouldn’t be a choice at all at that level.

    It’s a tool and as any other tool, it is created to serve you… not to put you under its service.

    With creativity, I’m pretty sure there are thousand ways to find out who the real owner of the site is, and keep him or her in control at all time.

    This event that I’m facing and countless others faced, shouldn’t be happening.

    I have faith in your good will and wholeheartedly desire to help… I think the same about the business created around this plugin.

    A good portion of users of this plugin/tool are business owners, and once in business every one desires good referrals and testimonials, and not the bad ones.

    Again, I appreciate your help with this matter, knowing that you are here to help… thank you kmessinger!

    I’m looking forward to your response.

    Regards,
    Ivan

    Did you post at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-wp-security

    Better security does modify the .htaccess file. It is an invisible file that to see sometimes you have to make changes in the file manager. Your caching file probable put something here also. Are you sure it has nothing in it?

    Also rename the caching plugin to WP-Super-Cache-old.

    Also rename wp-content/themes/fifteen-plus to wp-content/themes/fifteen-plus-old. That should force WordPress to use the default theme.

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