Title: Error: Not Authenticated
Last modified: September 12, 2019

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# Error: Not Authenticated

 *  [pbrace28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbrace28/)
 * (@pbrace28)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-not-authenticated/)
 * I’ve been trying to login to WordPress through Bluehost. I’ve never had an issue
   until the last two days. Bluehost logs in fine, but when I try to login to WordPress,
   it simply takes me to a white screen that says ‘Error: Not Authenticated’. It
   doesn’t matter which computer I’m on. My Bluehost site says all my plugins are
   up to date. I searched the Forum but only found one possible solution that didn’t
   pan out (disabling Google Analytics for WordPress through the Admin page on Bluehost).
   I deleted my cookies and browser history and that didn’t help.
 * I know there are probably other things I haven’t tried such as uninstalling and
   reinstalling WordPress, but am at a loss as to how to do that anyway. If anyone
   has any ideas to help me out then I would appreciate it. I’m not super tech savvy
   so ‘WordPress For Dummies’ language please lol
 * Or is this a problem with my host?

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 *  [serralee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serralee/)
 * (@serralee)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-not-authenticated/#post-11928233)
 * It happens to me before. I think it is because one of the plugin you installed
   is corrupt. Try to deactivate all the plugins and see if the error still pop 
   up.
 *  Thread Starter [pbrace28](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbrace28/)
 * (@pbrace28)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-not-authenticated/#post-11930751)
 * [@serralee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serralee/), that worked. Amusingly,
   I was struggling with how to rename the folder to deactivate the plugins *Facepalm*.
   A google search revealed what I was struggling with lol now I’m accessing it 
   again. Thanks.
 *  [cryptogains](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cryptogains/)
 * (@cryptogains)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-not-authenticated/#post-11941247)
 * Hello,
 * If it can help someone i had the same message, i could login to wordpress admin
   but couldn’t access to my picture library (like there was no image there) or 
   update a plugin, this was caused by the plugin WP-Chatbot (i was not authenticated
   on fb messenger), when i deactivated it, no more message and website worked fine
   again.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [cryptogains](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cryptogains/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-not-authenticated/#post-11941247)
 * Status: not resolved

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