wp-admin redirects to another page after automatic wordpress upgrade

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Whenever I try to log into my wordpress site using mysite.com/wp-admin it redirects me to mysite.com/auto-login and giving a 404 error. It is happening with mysite.com/wp-login.php page as well. After go through my email i came to know that worpdress was upgraded automatically to 4.4.6. That means the problem started after the upgrade. Before that I could log into the site using wp-admin or login.php page without any problem.

Let me tell you what I did so far to solve it.

  1. Edited the .htaccess file with the default code from wordpress.org site. Problem remained.
  2. After that I deleted the file and uploaded a new one.

Did both through cpanel, but all in vain.

Update: I disabled my plugins one by one and found a faulty one. wp-admin or wp-login.php is now taking me to login page. But now the problem is it keeps redirecting to this same login page every time I enter my user name and password.

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1 Answers

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(Posted on behalf of the OP).

I have solved it. Let me tell you how.

  1. I disabled my theme by renaming the folder.
  2. I had no other theme in my directory so I uploaded twentysixteen theme.
  3. I tried to login and It gave me a wrong password error which was weird because I did not change anything.
  4. So I went through my phpMyAdmin and found that my password was changed I don't know how. Anyway I changed that and came back to login. And voila! WordPress let me in!
  5. Then I changed the theme to my previous real one and everything is OK now.