IN WORDPRESS, you have LOST YOUR 2 FACTOR AUTHENTICATOR DEVICE/FORMATTED IT WITHOUT BACKUP OF CODES
This is applicable when you have installed plugin called icontrolWP or shield security, both from same producer; and you have LOST YOUR 2 FACTOR AUTHENTICATOR DEVICE/FORMATTED IT WITHOUT BACKUP OF CODES.
I’m locked out of my own site!
1) Are you the site owner?
If Yes – continue reading.
If No – contact the owner of the site. We are not the owner of the site. We do not manage the site. Please contact the site owner.
2) FTP or File Manager – what is it?
Please note: When the term FTP is used, if you don’t know what this is, you can also use a File Manager program provided by your web hosting provider. If you don’t know what that is, please contact your web host.
3) Now continue if you are the site owner and, you know what FTP/File Manager is
Use of this plugin assumes that you have full administrator rights to this site, and this include FTP access.
FTP is the ultimate administrator access and should anything ever go wrong with your site, FTP is often the only (best) way to fix it.
In this way, if you ever get locked out of your own site as a result of this plugin, for whatever reason, you can forcefully turn off all restrictions made by it.
To do this:
- Log into your FTP space for this website.
- Browse to the plugin folder: …./wp-content/plugins/wp-simple-firewall/
- Create or upload a file called (exactly) : forceoff
Please note, the file has no extension, such as, for example, .txt, .php, .anything
Then, reload the site and it will automatically switch off all plugin features.
If for some reason this doesn’t work for you, you can simply rename the plugin folder to anything else and WordPress will disable the plugin completely. THIS FORMULA CAN BE APPLIED TO MOST OF SUCH SECURITY PLUGINS. ULTIMATELY YOU HAVE TO SAVE YOUR ASS BY LOGIN TO CPANEL OR DIRECT FTP ACCESS.
