Just a log so I remember what I’ve done…
5 Sep 08 – Blog got hacked by those damn spam injection bots again
6 Sep 08 – I realise the hack and also found out that the Secret Key for WP 2.5 & WP 2.6 is different. (Mine wasn’t updated after the upgrade).
7 Sep 08 – Finally manage to get the new Secret Key to work (something wrong with my coding on previous attempt).
7 Sep 08 night – Realised I couldn’t log into my Admin Panel. Tried everything suggested in the forums – changing mysql password, resetting Admin Panel login pwd, etc. I even went backwards and loaded my blog snapshot as of 24 Aug but still caught in endless wp-login.php loop. Gave up, posted on forum asking for help.
8 Sep 08 – Another WP user said what worked for him was disabling all plug-ins one by one… different plugins were the cause of the problem for different users. Tried & worked! My culprit plugin was the WP Automatic Upgrade plugin.
Lesson learnt? Not all blog problems can be solved in 1 day… and the forums are a GREAT help.
I wasn’t as frustrated this time as I was the last… heh… but I do note that I need to learn to be patient… that’s something I didn’t inherit from my dad unfortunately. He’s the most patient trouble-shooter I’ve seen. 😛
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