Try:
– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming your current theme’s folder inside wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.
added -old to theme folder name; changed plugin folder name to plugins.hold. Still getting too many redirects, still login page just lands me back on login page.
You’re confusing me. You said the first step was to switch to Twenty Eleven. I renamed the current theme folder as you said. You said the second step was resetting the plugins folder; the linked page said to change the plugins folder name to plugins.hold and I did that. So what is the second step. I can’t log in.
Sorry – my bad. I missed that part in your previous post. Can you try resetting the plugins by Phpmyadmin?
I actually figured out the problem and it’s kind of interesting. My host, DreamHost, recently partnered with CloudFlare, a CDN and distributed DNS company, and offered the use of CloudFlare to all their domains. One issue with doing that is that CloudFlare requires that your site url be configured to always default to “www.sitename.com” instead of “site name.com”. So I made that setting change, but of course, I didn’t think to change the site url within the WordPress settings panel. The redirect problem is intermittent within CloudFlare because of DNS magic I can’t comprehend, but it bit me this morning. Now all is well. Thanks for your help. Always learning.
Oh – wow! Going back to www. domains is a real retrograde step. Thanks for letting us know, though. 🙂
