Wp-Admin access crashes with this plugin and crashes when removed

[lfrohling]

Good morning,

I've been using this plugin for a while and de-activated it a few weeks ago and things seemed to keep working until I tried to login this morning. I got a "You must log in to access the admin area." error message and so I removed the folder containing the plugin. However when I did so I got a 403 error message "Access to [my site] was denied You don't have authorisation to view this page. HTTP ERROR 403".

It seems, even when inactive, the plugin has changed something structurally with the website. I can see the website address has a redirect in it "https://[my site]/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2F[my site]%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1".

Naturally the [my site] is where my site is listed in full. How do I completely flush this plugin from my site pls? I've already FTP'd in and moved/deleted the folder to get this message so what else needs to happen? Pls help!!!

[maximejobin]

What is your host ?

This problem has been seen on hosts that use caching in the admin section. This isn't something the plugin can control, unfortunately. If you are unsure if they are using caching, please contact them.

[tripflex]

403 is a forbidden error, check your error logs with host. I don't see anything in the codebase that would cause anything like this when the files are removed (or plugin is renamed) .. the files must exist and be activated for it to actually do anything.

You could try using my WP Login Flow plugin (which utilizes the native wp-login.php file using rewrites): https://github.com/tripflex/wp-login-flow

I only mention this as an alternative solution, as i'm going to try and integrate the functionality/handling from this plugin, into mine, for support when hosting provider doesn't support .htaccess so as to use internal core WordPress permalink structure handling