Title: API Key Lockout
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# API Key Lockout

 *  [meesha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meesha/)
 * (@meesha)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lockout/)
 * I have been all over the forum looking for an answer to this problem as well 
   as spending overtime googling it. There are lots of others with this issue, even
   in this forem’s category “Plug-ins and Hacks”, but no one seems to be able to
   resolve it. Hopefully you can help me here.
 * I have been moving an existing blog from one host to another as well as upgrading
   from 2.0.5 to 2.3.3. With that all done and running smoothly, I tried to install
   the WP-Stats plug-in, but ran in another set of problems.
 * Since I was not the person that set up the original 2.0.5 blog, I don’t have 
   the password for the current API Key account that was linked to when the Akismet
   plug-in was installed.
 * So I got a new API key and found I couldn’t enter it as long as the old key was
   still in Akismet. I deactivated/activated Akismet but it still wouldn’t let me
   put in the new key until after I went into the options table in the database 
   and deleted the old API Key.
 * Then I activated Akismet again and this time it took the key just fine.
 * Next problem: I activated the WP-Stats plug-in and tried to put in the new key
   but got this error message:
 * Error from last API Key attempt:
    The owner of that API Key (barrymartin) is 
   not on the access list for this blog. When this blog was registered, “tetesagehen’s”
   API key was used. To add you to the access list, “tetesagehen” must visit this
   blog’s stats dashboard page and use the form at the bottom of that page.
 * So I’m back to the same issue that I had with Akismet. I don’t have the password
   for “tetesagehen”, in fact no one currently even knows who “tetesagehen” is or
   was, so I’m stuck again.
 * One of the posts in “Plug-ins and Hacks” mentioned hard coding the API Key into
   the stats.php page, said it worked for him. I tried and it said even though there
   was a key there, it was not a good key.
 * I posted on WordPressMax.com and he said he thought that I would have to have
   WordPress.com admin remove this blog from “tetesagehen’s” account, but WordPress.
   com won’t talk to me since I don’t have a blog over there.
 * It’s looking like this is the forum of last resort for me and plenty of others
   with the same problem.
 * How do I now get past this point? Find me a solution and I will post it on every
   wordpress forum site I know.
 * Thanks for any help.

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 * [Lockout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lockout/)

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 * Last reply from: [meesha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meesha/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/api-key-lockout/)
 * Status: not resolved

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