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Thanks Chris ?? Appreciate the response!

You’re amazing cubecolour – thank you.

Turns out the Woo Commerce Social Discount plugin has been causing it all along! I thought by trying the major 5/6 it would do it – but it turns out it’s always one of the little ones you never really notice!

Site back to normal, big relief!

Thanks for posting & helps, much appreciated. ??

Hi guys,

Actually – I’ve just gone through your support ticket on your website and what can I say? 10/10 – A+++

When you realised it was my theme causing the upload feature not to work rather than doing what most plugin companies do – saying ‘tough luck, try a new theme’ you actually took my theme, worked out what wasn’t working and then offered a fix!

Guys – if anyone is on the fence about this one – I can’t even begin to recommend the plugin and the developer behind it enough.

Thanks so much ??

Hi @bethem,

From what I remember (it was nearly a year ago or so) the above plugin allows you to change the login url completely, so rather than yoursite.com/wp-login.php it can be yoursite.com/login.

I don’t know what caused this error initially – but I was with a TERRIBLE hosting company. Since switching to TSOHost I haven’t ever encountered this again, so it might be worth looking at your hosting provider (especially if it’s a cheap shared hosting package) before trying to re-work your entire site!

If you need to login & activate this plugin before the login URL is changed I believe I had to keep clicking login. Time after time after time it would simply hit the 503 error, but then once in every 100 or so it would load long enough to take me through to my dashboard. Once logged in, from what I remember, the problem is resolved. Activate the plugin, change the login URL and it should be OK?

Hope this works for you! Well worth investigating the cause and your host too!

Cheers.

Sorted it guys – switched to default theme, regenerated images, checked it was looking right on 2012 theme, went back to my theme and it worked! ??

Example’s are here by the way :);

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Have you got leechprotect enabled on your server (if you have cPanel you can probably login and check yourself).

I had it switched on once and hadn’t specifically enabled my sub-domain – I found the subdomain worked OK but no icons showed up, nor could I actually seem to upload images. Kind of made my site act all weird.

Might not be a fix, but worth a try?

Thanks Amanda,

I change themes like the weather during development, but this call to action I thought was part of the Visual Composer. Strangely enough I lost it switching from my first theme, but have since returned to that first theme and the call to action is gone?

Great suggestions though – definitely better practice!

WPRanger you’re a star – worked like a charm. The only noticeable downside was that it seemed to wipe some changes I’ve made to the wp-bar via an WPMU plugin – but that can easily be re-applied.

Literally just typed search for; https:// – change to https:// and clicked Go – it did the rest brilliantly.

Great suggestion – thank you. ??

Thanks – I’ll try that and let you know what happens ??

Looks like I’m going to have to buy another SSL then and revert to https:// then?

Just surprised this isn’t something that’s been encountered by somebody else to date?

I have the same problem – I’m with streamline.net. They keep insisting I’m to blame or it’s to do with plugins, even though i’m sure it’s a problem there end.

I did find a plugin you can use as a work around (if you ever mange to login) – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/rename-wp-login/ –
it changes the login url (so it can be yoursite.com/login rather wp-login.php which seemed to work for one of my effected site).

It still doesn’t solve the problem of actually logging in in the first instance.

Rest assured, it looks like it’s almost certainly a hosting issue and nothing to do with you or your site.

Sorry for bumping – just posting a work-around I’ve found so anybody else in the future might be able to work from.

I tried everything – resetting scripting, changing databases – the lot. In the end I changed the login page from /wp-login to /login using https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/rename-wp-login/ and that seems to be working absolutely fine now.

Really don’t know what it was, but it’s working ok for me and may do for you, too ??

Maybe give tech support a shout, they should be able to tell you if it’s on or not.

Worst case scenario all I can think to suggest is maybe a roll-back to a slightly earlier version of WordPress and perhaps upgrade in increments – see if you can flag down the problem.

Is it a plugin or theme that’s not compatible up to present? I had issues with an old Gravity Forms plugin I purchased along time ago conflicting with a newer plugin & theme from Themeforest when I upgraded from 3.5.1, might not be relevant but hopefully it’ll get you somewhere?

Huumm, that’s odd. I’d try maybe disabling plugins that are to do with restriction / user roles, like Page Restrict and see if the problem is resolved.

obviously check settings > reading and make sure your homepage is set to your homepage.

I had an issue with Page Restrict doing something similarly as strange to me – redirecting login to a 404, disabled it and everything returned as usual.

Might be worth trying?