mettam

Ok, I might have been a little irritable earlier when I posted. So let me give you a better idea of what is happening. I was just using one administrative account to attempt to login. But this particular site is rather inactive, so I had forgotten the password.

At the moment I am logged in – having deleted the plugin directory (but not having removed the settings in the database). So I add the directory back in, activate the plugin, and I’m immediately sent to ‘Lost Password/Reset Password’ page. Which is why I hadn’t removed the plugin’s records. So I put in my info and have it send me an email. I click the link in the email and reset my password. Now this time it works as it’s supposed to!

I suspect it has to do with the several hours that have passed since I was having problems (i.e., well past the 120 minute tracking of login errors). Previously, no matter what password I entered (even one with more than 10 characters including uppercase, lowercase, numbers and punctuation) it kept telling me that my password was not strong enough. BTW, the one I just used successfully was one of the ‘not strong enough’ ones from earlier today.

At that time what would happen is that I would attempt to login (as the ‘not strong enough’ error message says to do) and then I would get a ‘wrong password/username’ error and asking me if I want to reset my password. It was like an error loop that I couldn’t break.

While I now seem to have things working right again, I hope my above description is a little more helpful to understanding what was going on.

Thanks