HOME URL Wp-Admin login Looping

  • Hello Folks,

    I need some help.

    If I navigate to my HOME Url /wp-admin and try to login it loops back to the my home back and doesn’t login.

    If I navigate to my SITE Url /wp-admin and try to login I can access my dashboard.

    BUT if view a page or try to browse by ADMIN bar disappears and I cannot go back to the dashboard.

    This is a particular problem because I have bbpress forums that are only accessible by subscribers. If they try to login via the HOME Url/ wp-login page it just loops; if they login via the SITE Url /wp-login page they get access to their dashboard, but then cannot navigate to the forums on the HOME Url.

    I cannot find anything regarding this online. This doesn’t seem to be a login redirect problem as the admin bar disappears….

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  • aaronhall

    (@aaronhall)

    I found a solution.

    Problem:

    For me, the cause was upgrading from a very old version of WordPress to a current version—Wordpress couldn’t handle such a drastic upgrade.

    Solution:

    1. The solution was to install WordPress 3.5 and allow WordPress to update the database. This let me get into the control panel without the infinite loop. It seems WordPress needs to be updated incrementally.

    2. Then I installed WordPress 3.8 and allowed WordPress to update the database.

    3. Then I installed WordPress 3.9.3 and allowed WordPress to update the database.

    4. Then I installed WordPress 4.0.1 and allowed WordPress to update the database. (At the time of this writing, 4.0.1 is the current version.)

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