Locked out of Word Press

I consider myself very new to online blogging and with that comes some growing pains. One of my more recent issues was locking myself out of my Word Press (WP) site after trying to change my primary domain name. I made the mistake of logging into the WP-admin, going to settings and changing the domain name in WP. At this point this is when everything went south and I couldn’t access my admin dashboard.

To fix this mistake you will need to log into your Control Panel dashboard. For me this is HostGator.

#1. Click the tab that says “Hosting”

#2. Scroll down the Page and Click “Backup”

#3. You are now redirected to your Control Panel.

Click “Database” in the left hand column

Then to the right click “adminphp”

#4. After Being Redirected

Expand your WP database in the left hand column

Then click “WP-Options”

#5. Edit

Now Click on “Edit” and type in the original Domain address.

After editing the domain name for your home and site URL then you should now be able to access your WP-admin dashboard!!!