Recover Admin Access to a Locked-Out Site with AI
Get back into wp-admin when every page bounces you to the dashboard, using WPVibe connection instead of FTP.
Prerequisites
A connected site whose front end still loads; WPVibe connection works even when wp-admin locks you out.
I am locked out of my WordPress admin: [describe what happens, for example every admin page redirects me to the dashboard, or the login page keeps looping]. My site's front end still loads. Using WPVibe's connection, diagnose the cause without me needing FTP or phpMyAdmin: check whether my user account still has the administrator role and its capabilities, and check for a plugin or setting that could be forcing the redirect. Tell me what you found before changing anything. If my account lost its admin role or capabilities, restore them for user [my username or email] and walk me through the approval step. Then confirm I can reach wp-admin again.
Already connected to WPVibe?
Skip the copy-paste. Just ask your AI for the “Recover Admin Access to a Locked-Out Site with AI” recipe, or describe the task, and WPVibe runs these steps on your own site.
You log in and instead of the dashboard you land back on the login screen, or every admin menu you click bounces you straight to the dashboard. The front end of your site works fine, which somehow makes it worse, because you can see your site but you cannot manage it. The usual advice is to dig into FTP, phpMyAdmin, or your database, which is exactly the kind of afternoon nobody wants.
WPVibe talks to your site over its own authenticated connection, so it keeps working even when the browser side of wp-admin has locked you out. It checks the most common causes first: whether your user account quietly lost the administrator role and its capabilities, and whether a plugin or setting is forcing the redirect. It tells you what it found before it changes anything, and any fix that touches your account waits for your explicit approval.
Paste the prompt below and describe exactly what you see when you try to log in. Let WPVibe report the cause before you approve any repair. If the problem turns out to be your site address settings, WPVibe will flag it rather than rewrite those values for you, since those are easy to get wrong and better changed deliberately. Once your role is restored, load wp-admin again to confirm you are back in.
Outcome
Your administrator role and capabilities restored so wp-admin loads again, after WPVibe diagnoses why you were locked out.