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Hi All!

I was able to restore my blog.
Short of it: On a fresh install, I restored my posts via SQL.

Here’s the step-by-step (most of it) of how I recovered my blog.

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If I can’t login, is there still a way to export my blog from outside the admin panel?

The idea is to backup my blog NOT via SQL DB, but via XML. Can that work?

Hi All!

I went to the extreme and re-installed my wordpress blog.
I was momentarily able to login to my newly installed blog.
But now that I’ve re-connected my backup (sql) database to my wordpress blog,
the login symptoms originally described are recurring.

Here’s what I did:

1.) Backed-up blog using these back-up instructions. Result: sql file in my laptop.
2.) Re-installed wordpress
Result: able to login to wordpress fresh install.
3.) Restored backup on my server (dreamhost). I also dropped old databases as instructed in this visual tutorial.
Result: I can see blog on front end but without any posts (only Hello World).
4.) I re-visited wp-config.php . I updated the table prefix:
from:
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
to:
$table_prefix = ‘wp_fgmcjg_’;
Result: Now my posts appear on front end of blog (some codes are broken).
BUT now the login is now back to old symptoms:

When I enter “admin” and the correct password, browser returns me to http://www.technobiography.com/wp-login.php .

Please please help.
How can I restore properly? (have old posts AND be able to login).