WordPress Login issues resolved

I’ve been having a difficult time logging into my own blog after I upgraded to version 2.6. There’s been a ton written about this topic (after each upgrade, it seems), but everyone appears to experience a slightly different problem. Here’s what I was able to find, and how I resolved my own problem.

wp-config.php file. I quickly realized that this was the culprit, but I struggled with how to edit the code to make it function properly while also providing additional security.

Database character set. If you started using WordPress with Version 2.2 or later, you will have a defined character set. This tells WordPress how to interact with your database. If not, you cannot have these fields defined in your wp-config file. Read this.

Use Secret Keys to increase security. Wordpress tells you to use your former wp-config.php file. Yet the new wp-config-sample.php file offers much more security. I was able to add the Secret Keys AND use // to deactivate the Database character set. I saved my config file with a different name (just in case), edited the –sample file, and saved the –sample file as the config file. Read this to learn about the new security features.

Clear your Cookies. The new version of WordPress uses cookies slightly different from previous versions, but they share some of the same data. This means that if you have cookies from a previous version, the WordPress login screen might get confused, and your results will range from spotty to ineffective. Read this to see more about it.

Hopefully this will help somebody out there who is going through a similar experience (or will at some point in the future.)

Your still not much of a programmer Realtor,

Chris Butterworth