How to Troubleshoot Locked out of WordPress Admin issue?

What would you do if you have been Locked out of WordPress Admin because of unknown reasons? Well, there could numerous possible cause why locked out admin issues hit on the website. Perhaps you have edited the WordPress code recently, there might be a Plugin or theme behind this error, or you have just received this error casually with no signs of cause.

If you know where you have edited recently, then you can start correcting the issue in the right way instantly. Whatever the reasons are, this post gives different solutions that help you to eliminate the problem. The solutions are categorized according to the source of error. Let’s have a glance.

In case, if you have forgotten Your Custom Login URL.

Every WordPress user gets a general security practice, and that is to change the default WordPress, Admin Login URL. Change the default login URL (site.com/wp-admin) to a customized one. This will help you to protect from cyber bots continuously trying to break your login URL and hackers.

However, often you may forget login URL and get the error message such as “This has been disabled” while trying to access the site. Maybe it was in your WordPress history, and cache has been removed, or you had bookmarked that has been deleted as well.

Whatever the cause behind this, in case you are using a plugin such as Perfmatters or any other, then you need to deactivate that plugin for a short time. You can get the Plugin to activate when you restore the default login URL. The disabling of a plugin can sort out the Locked out of WordPress Admin issue.

When Password recovery method fails

Generally, if you are trying to perform WordPress Admin Login to navigate the dashboard and you see “incorrect password” notification. In such cases the easiest way to retrieve the password to click the “Lost your password” option.

But in a few conditions, you might have tried this method but didn’t get any password retrieval mail. It is because your site is having email issues. If this is your problem, you can fix it by resetting the password straight in the line on the database.

Reset your password using phpMyAdmin

Login to your C-Panel with correct credentials and find the phpMyAdmin link beneath the“Databases” segment. If you don’t have the detail of the Cpanel, you can ask from your web host.

Inside the phpMyAdmin, there is a list of databases on the left side. Hit on your WordPress database and open it.

Search your wp_users table and hit “Browse.” (The prefix might not always be wp_. If your prefix is separate then use it accordingly)

Now search your admin user and press Edit.

The phpMyAdmin showcase all the details of the user. To change your password, search the user_pass input area, delete the current value and write your new password( remember to note it down, so that you can keep it in your mind)

Under function, choose MD5 to verify your new password is hashed. Finally, press the button “Go” bottom of the PHPMyAdmin screen

Now you are able to access the WordPress admin dashboard with a new password.

Final thought

There might be some other reasons for Locked out of WordPress Admin issue, but for the present, we have described only two ways of rectifying this error. We anticipate that this guide will help you in that situation when you would actually go through with the related issue.