WP limit-login-attempts is great for slowing down wp hacking but you can accidentally lock yourself out.
the cure:
DELETE FROM wp_1_options
WHERE 1
AND option_name IN
( ‘limit_login_attempts’, ‘limit_login_lockouts’, ‘limit_login_logged’ )
in the wp_options table, look for this record that looks like this:
limit_login_retries
limit_login_lockouts
limit_login_logged
notice option_value: a:1:{s:14:“184.98.130.141”;i:1332001546;}
that is my ip number in the serialized value.
wp_options:
option_id, blog_id, option_name, option_value, autoload
‘3767’, ‘0’, ‘limit_login_retries’, ‘a:1:{s:14:“184.98.130.141”;i:4;}’, ‘no’
‘3768’, ‘0’, ‘limit_login_retries_valid’, ‘a:1:{s:14:“184.98.130.141”;i:1332043546;}’, ‘no’
‘3769’, ‘0’, ‘limit_login_lockouts’, ‘a:1:{s:14:“184.98.130.141”;i:1332001546;}’, ‘yes’
‘3770’, ‘0’, ‘limit_login_logged’, ‘a:1:{s:14:“184.98.130.141”;a:1:{s:9:“sdfsdfsdf”;i:1;}}’, ‘no’
‘3771’, ‘0’, ‘limit_login_lockouts_total’, ‘1’, ‘no’
