Chris Johnston

There is a very strange bug in WordPress that may prevent people from loging in. I just experienced this little bug. I cleared the cookies and cache on my web browser and found that I could not log into WordPress anymore. Apparently this bug only strikes if you move WordPress. Unfortunetaly, I just recently did this when I changed hosting companies. A little browsing on the WordPress support forum found a link that seems to have solved the problem. The change I had to make was to manually reset all the passwords through phpmyadmin. I tried this several times, but apparently WordPress uses md5 encrypted passwords instead of the default password encryption available in MySQL. I tried to reset my password using the password function available in MySQL. This did not work.

If you are experiencing the same problem, here are few links that I found helpful:

• How to change your password using phpmyadmin.
• An excellent set of tutorials and topics for WordPress users
• Support forum thread related to not being able to login
• A second thread related to login/password problems

The short solution is to manually reset the password in MySQL using phpmyadmin and md5 encryption.