My password stops working after creating a new site despite working during setup

  • Resolved otorixdan

    (@otorixdan)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m in the process of migrating our company website from a trial address to our main address. We are using a 1-click wordpress solution at one.com (which is our web hosting service). Despite following guides I made some mistakes in the process, and figured that the easiest thing to do was to remove the new site and start again. This happened a couple of times and soon I started to experience some strange issues. The password to log in to /wp-admin worked during the setup, but then I couldn’t access the dashboard with the same password any longer. I also started to get asked to do some simple math during the log in process to prove that I’m human which I never did originally. I assumed that this issue might be caused by creating all the new sites, which might make me look like a bot or something.

    How do I solve this?

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by otorixdan. Reason: shortening the post
    • This topic was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • @otorixdan

    Sorry!! Your post is too large, my personal advice just short to provide your issue then only volunteers can reply you.

    And don’t post duplicate posts

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    Thread Starter otorixdan

    (@otorixdan)

    I’ll shorten it then. I was under the impression that more details = better replys, but I’ll edit it to make it shorter

    Can you access your database via CPanel / VPS?

    If yes just go to database and find wp-users table (wp- its prefix its may different)

    And choose find your user name row, Then update your email address now you can reset password via reset email link

    If you are using localhost just update password and make it MD5 mode

    https://ibb.co/mqLx75

    Thread Starter otorixdan

    (@otorixdan)

    I can access the database and edit the page that way. I already have access to the email for password reset, and have tried doing password resets, but it still tells me I have the wrong password, despite using copy/paste to make sure the password is the same. Can I somehow have been locked out from creating pages correctly because I created the same page over and over again?

    Try the following for password reset:

    Visit your database via phpmyadmin ->
    search for (prefix)_users table ->
    find your username and click Edit ->
    now check user_pass value and delete it ->
    input your new password and select MD5 under function column ->
    hit Go to save changes ->
    try to login

    hope this helps.

    Thread Starter otorixdan

    (@otorixdan)

    I managed to get it to work, thanks for all the help!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by otorixdan. Reason: forgot to mark as resolved

    Great it worked for you. Please mark topic as resolved.

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