How to regain access to your website with WP-CLI

https://negativepid.blog/how-to-regain-access-to-your-website-with-wp-cli/

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How to regain access to your website with WP-CLI

https://negativepid.blog/how-to-regain-access-to-your-website-with-wp-cli/

#webAdmin #WPCLI #wordpress #websites #websiteAdministration #accessRecovery #commandLine #Cybersecurity #cyberattacks #cyberThreats #onlineSecurity #negativepid

That's one (slightly annoying) problem solved so far today - I've managed to upgrade the #WordPress version and plugins on https://abulman.co.uk/ after a couple of attempts.
I use WP-CLI to do it all from the command line, but it had been reporting that everything was already up to date - even though the dashboard was lit up like an Xmas tree with new version notifications.

Initially, I forced a version update with `wp core update --version=6.9 --force`, but wanted to find the general solution. Searching found a couple of posts saying that security or caching plugins could be the issue, so I ended up making a quick edit in the W3TC drop-in plugin file at `wp-content/object-cache.php`, just adding a `return;` at the top so it wasn't used. That solved it, and I could upgrade all the themes and plugins, before removing the line again.

As that WordPress site is the only thing I've got on the server, I'll take another look around for a good looking theme for Hugo to replace it with a Github pages version and setup all the redirects in LuaDNS to send them there. Or maybe I can just add some things to my Github front-page at https://github.com/alister instead?

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