{"id":10933,"date":"2024-06-04T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truehost.co.ke\/support\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2024-06-21T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:30:42","password":"","slug":"locked-wordpress-heres-fix-2","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/locked-wordpress-heres-fix-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked out of WordPress – Here’s the Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The solution is to reset your plugs – manually. Here’s how<\/h3>\n

You have two options for resetting your plugins manually:<\/p>\n

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  1. Use your File Manager in cPanel<\/li>\n
  2. Use an FTP Client like Filezilla<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For the sake of ease, I\u2019m going to walk you through the quick steps of how to do this via the File Manager in your cPanel.<\/p>\n

    Here we go!<\/p>\n

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    • Login to your hosting cPanel.<\/li>\n
    • Scroll down to the Files section in your cPanel.<\/li>\n
    • Select File Manager.<\/li>\n
    • From there, a new screen will open showing the files of your website. Scroll down to the folder that says wp-content<\/strong> and open.<\/li>\n
    • After that, select the plugins<\/strong> folder, but don\u2019t open it. Instead, highlight it by right clicking on it and then select the RENAME<\/b> option.<\/li>\n
    • Rename your plugins folder \u201cplugins.hold\u201d and save. (Don\u2019t log out just yet as you\u2019ll need to do something else in a bit.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      After that, you will have deactivated your plugins and can open a new window tab in your browser and you should now be able to login to your WordPress dashboard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Your journey isn\u2019t over just yet, though.<\/p>\n

      Now that you can login into your dashboard, you need to go back to your plugins folder in the File Manager and change the name of your \u201cplugins.hold<\/strong>\u201d folder back to just \u201cplugins<\/strong>\u201c. This way everything will be the way it was before things glitched out and you won\u2019t be creating another problem to solve later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The solution is to reset your plugs – manually. 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