I Screwed Up- Lost my admin page

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  • Hello. ??

    Can you tell me what method you used to redirect the site?

    Thread Starter librarianryan

    (@librarianryan)

    On the main admin page in settings, it was one of the tow places that has the Reachingforwardsouth.org

    I am sorry I can not remember what they are called. I have not had to work on this site since before COVID.

    It sounds like you only changed one of those two fields and they both needed to be changed. You can do that now by accessing the database through your hosting panel.

    In your hosting panel, look for a database admin tool, PHPMyAdmin is common.

    Once there, open the Options table in the database. The two top fields that can be edited are those two domain fields you initially saw on the Settings page. Change them both either to the new domain or the old domain.

    If you change it to the old domain, you’ll still have to go into Settings on your WordPress dashboard and change them to the new domain you want it directed to. That creates extra steps for you, but does give you back control of the website and allows you to make changes outside of the database.

    Thread Starter librarianryan

    (@librarianryan)

    Thank you, @mysweetcate

    You are right I did only change one. Do you know how I can get back to my hosting panel. I can not seem to access it. I have even tried to go to history where I had it open before and it all redirects to the new bad site.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by librarianryan.

    You’ll have to contact your host directly, likely by phone, to find out what system they have in place for you to edit your database. This step is all outside of your WordPress site and dashboard.

    Thread Starter librarianryan

    (@librarianryan)

    Okay, Thank you for your help. @mysweetcate

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