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Christian Araya
Christian Araya
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Posted by Christian Araya
Christian Araya
2,761 Points

Getting account expired message at when trying to login via /wp-admin.

Recently switched over domain and webhosting to godaddy because of wp account expiration. Godaddy domain and webhosting are up and running.

I installed WP app on server but when I tried logging in via /wp-admin url extension I received WP's your account has expired message.

Was expecting to be taken to WP login. Any ideas on what I may be missing?

I thought maybe it was the Name Servers but I'm not seeing that as one of my options under Store in WP. Just seeing Email and Edit DNS options.

Help

2 Answers

Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

You may want to try clearing your local DNS cache and your browser cache and visit the url again. Do you have a link?

Christian Araya
Christian Araya
2,761 Points
Christian Araya
Christian Araya
2,761 Points

Zac Gordon , I cleared both caches but no luck.

I added the WP app to my web host (CPanel) account.

I then followed the instructions from the video and added a username, password, and email for the administrator account in CPanel.

I went to christianaraya.com/wp-admin and entered that information but Wordpress didn't recognize it.

I even selected their Forgot Password link to see if WP recognized the same administrator username but WP failed to recognize it. I also tried the admin email I had entered but no luck either. WP failed to recognize both admin username and password I saved under CPanel.

This is frustrating. Am I suppose to create an administrator account through the WP website with that same username and email info first?

The admin login info is different from my original .com login info right? They're in no way related