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Hmm, fews days ago I got a big trouble while login to the site event if every credentials and reCAPTCHA value is correctly provided but I never had a chance to access to the admin panels.
I always got the message saying that:
It is strange because I have used this plugin Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) by BestWebSoft
since the beginning of website deployment and I have never had any trouble like what I had right now. With this, I have no ways to access to my website back-end to add more posts and comments back to all of your inquiries. It is a frustrate situation because I can do nothing to my home page as administration part of the WordPress can not be accessible due to authenticate error.
After relaxing awhile then finally, I found that we can only do manually disable the plugin either in PHP code or in database MySQL. Luckily, I have full right to access on both FTP and MySQL on hosting so, it is not very complicate to disable it if I knew the points where that plugin value are setting in the database. I preferred to do it via database rather then PHP code because it would take less time to understand the structure then scripting languages used.
Please backup your database and/or your files/folders before making any change. This can solve to restore back the website in case of any problem happen un-expected.
You can use whatever GUI to access to your database back end (MySQL). For my case, I used phpMyAdmin
provided by my web hosting server. The plugin configuration is stored in a table called wp_options
. Now, let try to look for active plugins with the following sql statement.
SELECT * FROM `wp_options` WHERE option_name = 'active_plugins';
You should got something similar like this in your result set.
Here is exactly what my option_value are in my setting
a:7:{i:0;s:36:"contact-form-7/wp-contact-form-7.php";i:1;s:50:"google-analytics-for-wordpress/googleanalytics.php";i:2;s:33:"google-captcha/google-captcha.php";i:3;s:36:"google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php";i:4;s:49:"social-sharing-toolkit/social_sharing_toolkit.php";i:5;s:39:"syntaxhighlighter/syntaxhighlighter.php";i:6;s:41:"wordpress-importer/wordpress-importer.php";}
As you see, I have had 7 plugin enables in system. But what I would like to do now is to disable is google-captcha
. To do so, I need to change the value a:7:
to a:6:
. Means that only 6 plugin will be enable. Then remove i:2;s:33:"google-captcha/google-captcha.php";
from the field.
Finally, the my option_value is presented like this
a:6:{i:0;s:36:"contact-form-7/wp-contact-form-7.php";i:1;s:50:"google-analytics-for-wordpress/googleanalytics.php";i:2;s:36:"google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php";i:3;s:49:"social-sharing-toolkit/social_sharing_toolkit.php";i:4;s:39:"syntaxhighlighter/syntaxhighlighter.php";i:5;s:41:"wordpress-importer/wordpress-importer.php";}
Once the change is updated to the database, then at login page, I see no more reCAPTCHA module embedded anymore. So I can passed through administration back-end of my homepage with only username, password, and no more Captcha validation. The selected plugin is now disabled. You can re-enable it again via Plugins tools of the WordPress. Disabling does not mean deleted it, it is just temporary block their activity.
Bravo! Finally everything is returning back as normal. I can manage my posts again ๐
I am really very happy, I have solved my issue.
Thanks Team
what does the s:36: or s:50 that is in front of each of the plugins mean?
Thank you very much! I have the same problem and noi i solved. Fucking google captcha!!!!
Oh man! You save my day! Thanks
Thanks so much. I missed the cutoff for recaptcha expiring and it locked me out completely. I was able to use this to disable the lines and now things are back to normal. Many thanks.
PFFFFF great info Perfect Man !!!! Worked just great saved me lots of work ๐
blessings
Life saver!!!
Perfect! This worked perfectly for me. Good Shit!
Thanks a ton! You saved my day. I am not a techie or nerdy geek, but you walked me through the steps so gently – forever grateful!
Genius thanks!
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanx buddy