Can’t log in

  • Have been logged in as Admin with a password that I wrote down and been creating a site for ‘weeks’ when I found it nessesary to log out. Now can’t log back in. Won’t accept the password. Tried multiple other passwords and nothing works. Clicked ‘Lost your password?’, entered the email address and clicked ‘Get New Password’. Checked email & it said my username was now ‘X’ (which I recognized, so I must have changed it, even tho I’ve read that you can’t change ‘admin’, you can only create a new account and give it admin permissions) and generated a new random password. Can’t log in with that either. Click on ‘Lost Your Password’ – visious cycle. Tried several solutions here, including: Cleared browser (IE8) cache and cookies, disabled plugins, uploaded fresh login file. Stopped short of editing the users table. Must be something simpler. Please help.

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  • Thread Starter rippert

    (@rippert)

    Hey, I’ve set up the whole thing all over again and after setup and install, I went to phpMyAdmin to check for the values you talked about and their still not in the wp_usermeta table. These are the rows:

    1 1 nickname
    2 1 rich_editing
    3 1 comment_shortcuts
    4 1 admin_color
    5 1 wp_capabilities
    6 1 default_password_nag
    7 1 wp_usersettings
    8 1 wp_usersettingstime

    Don’t see a reference to user level in any of the tables. Is it needed?
    Thanks.
    Rip

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Did you do a manual installation or an automatic installation, and are you able to login successfully?

    Thread Starter rippert

    (@rippert)

    Automatic. And I’ve logged in and out several times now cause I’m nervous. So far so good…

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Doing a manual installation is always better than an automatic one. I’m “old-school” and just don’t trust those things. But, if everything is working fine, you might as well keep it as it is.

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