WordPress 2.7 Login Fix

WordPress 2.7 is great. I am currently running the Release Candidate and I must admit it is quite polished. Up until recently, all of my sites were on 2.6. After seeing some of the new features I didn’t want to wait until it was out of Beta to use it for this blog.

The improved dashboard organization is a very nice touch, installing plugins from the administration interface is a piece of cake, and I am so happy to see that WordPress has integrated a feature to update the installation without getting your hands dirty. For those three reasons alone, everyone should upgrade.

I tried the integrated installation procedure on Thursday and it looked as if everything had gone smoothly. Unfortunately, every time I tried to login to the site I would not be redirected to the dashboard as you would expect. Instead I would keep getting stuck in a loop that sent me to the login page again.

Ex: http://blog.jenders.com/wp-admin/wp-login.php?redirect_to= …

I could deep link directly to the dashboard, or make sure I went to the index.php file, so everything was actually working. It was just annoying that the login wouldn’t actually send you to the dashboard. After reading a few posts about it being the .htaccess file and a few other possibilities including mod_rewrite I found a solution.

Just in case anyone else has run into the problem, follow these steps:

1. Deactivate all of your plugins
2. Clear all of your cookies for the domain
3. Logout of your WordPress installation
4. Close your browser tab / window (for good measure)
5. Login to your WordPress installation
6. Reactivate all of your plugins
7. Logout / Login

After that everything has been working well. A few people have said clearing their cookies was enough, Unfortunately that did not work for me. Moving forward, I may deactivate all of my plugins before another upgrade installation.

Dennis Jenders

With nearly 15 years in the field, Dennis Jenders is a digital marketing strategist with significant experience in analytics, design, development, information architecture and market research. Dennis is a founding board member of the Milwaukee Interactive Marketing Association, currently works at Laughlin Constable and is an adjunct professor at Marquette University.

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