Jeff Cable

Hello Steve.

Thank you for your help. I now have regained my site access through using the direct editing of wp_users in phpMyAdmin.

:)))

Thank you for your help. All is now well. 🙂

Please ignore these posts. All is now working. :)))

I can get into my site admin area by renaming the plugins folder and then it stays accessible for a while. My own user profile states an e-mail address for me but I have always been asked for a user name to access the site.

The All in One WP Security and Firewall plugin has been deleted but the plugin keeps asking me to login using my e-mail address. The e-mail address was never set up as the access to WP and I don’t know how to ensure that it has a password that matches my admin password when entering my user name.

PHP database access is not available to me through CPanel although I may be able to gain access by requesting the ISP to change something. I could also potentially edit the htaccess file.

Once the plugin was deleted I do not understand how it is able to continue to request an e-mail access to the site, when I never used it previously. I am sure that the plugin would be helpful if I could reset all that it had changed and then implement things in a more controlled manner. I think that when it showed my security as a number (often zero) I just wanted to improve matters and did it in a manner that was not sensible.

Thank you David.
I followed your suggestion and all is now working as before. I had not realised that the version I was using was the developers version. I must try and pay more attention in future. 😉

Kind regards,
Jeff

This issue has now resolved with a move away from the Safari web browser which is the standard web browser supplied with OS X. I don’t have sufficient knowledge to know why things went wrong but the use of Aviator web browser has cured the issue. Aviator is a secure web browser for both the OS X and Windows platforms and it can be obtained at the link below:

Aviator Web browser

Hi David,
I don’t understand why the UpdraftPlus application stopped working. Google claimed that the drive was configured and authenticated correctly. I spent some time trying to re-authenticate the Google drive as you have suggested but no success there. I deactivated and deleted UpdraftPlus and then reinstalled it. Still no joy with Google drive activation.

Eventually, the Google drive authentication defeated me. It was taking far too much of my time and without knowing what I am doing, I was reluctant to spend any more time on the issue. I had an authenticated Dropbox drive and that is what I am now using because it has worked for me. The Google drive issue has not gone away… I am just not using it. I have current backups now and that is all that I wanted to have.

It may be helpful is to discover why a system that was evidently correctly set up (it worked every day without fault) and was working for some time, suddenly decided to stop working. It may well be user stupidity but I had not adjusted or altered anything nor had I installed any new plugins so my uneducated guess is that the problem lies elsewhere.

I am so sorry to have bothered you with what must appear to you to be a rather trivial issue.

Kind regards,
Jeff