Title: Upgrading to WordPress v5.3
Last modified: November 14, 2019

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# Upgrading to WordPress v5.3

 *  Plugin Author [Oliver Campion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/domainsupport/)
 * (@domainsupport)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-v5-3/)
 * OK guys, WordPress v5.3 has some quite significant changes to the login system
   including a new form to biannually check the admin email address.
 * It is important to make sure you are running the latest version of Block wp-login**
   before** upgrading WordPress.
 * If you don’t do this, you will be blocked from signing in. When this happens,
   don’t panic, just changed the address in your browser address bar to, for example…
 * [http://example.com/wp-admin/](http://example.com/wp-admin/)
 * … swapping out [http://example.com](http://example.com) for your website’s address.
 * Sorry for any inconvenience caused,
 * Oliver
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [Oliver Campion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/domainsupport/).

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-v5-3/)
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