{"id":19051665,"date":"2026-10-22T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/locked-me-out-during-initial-setup\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:09:38","slug":"locked-me-out-during-initial-setup","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/locked-me-out-during-initial-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked me out during initial setup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waste of an hour of my time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Installed, went through wizard chose via email otp ALL users instant no delay setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At end it asked me to set up my admin 2fa.. I whitelisted address, then pressed I&#8217;m ready. Spinning logo then NOTHING. same screen. Tried 3 times then exited. Except now Im locked out of my dashboard until I press the ready button on a form that does NOTHING.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Straight to cpanel &#8211; find that plugin INSTANT DELETE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fixed issue I can access MY site again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YES I did search for this issue before deleting found nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is there zero documentation for when the most important of all 2fa functions (the actual setting up) fails completely BEFORE an email is even sent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took a screenshot but no insert image here and not wasting time sharing it on my site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EDIT:<br>Fluent SMTP found 3 failed sent emails. smpt host issue. But your dialog should have some way of detecting a failed SEND attempt so user can then roll back and UNDO 2fa settings so can then diagnose issue without being locked out\/needing brute force delete approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19051665","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19051665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19051665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19051732,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19051665\/revisions\/19051732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19051665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}