{"id":1079,"date":"2020-11-08T18:49:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2020-11-08T18:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:56:20","slug":"annoying-having-to-log-in-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/11\/annoying-having-to-log-in-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoying having to log in twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in the past something changed. I&#8217;ve no idea what or when and it wasn&#8217;t something I did. But now when I go to log in I get:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wordpress login Error: cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Logging in a second time works.<\/p>\n<p>This gives me the creeps because it is identical to a particular method of stealing login credentials I worked out (and used!) when at college many years go.<\/p>\n<p>Today I had the time to investigate it and, oh dear. It does depress me when I see an error has been around for years and has multiple solutions proposed. I just know it will take me hours to work it out and, no doubt, other things will break.<\/p>\n<p>So, some hours later, I&#8217;ve edited the<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> And now I can&#8217;t post properly either.  It would not let me post the above and when I tried to retrieve it, half it it was lost.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve applied updates, edited the php_config.php, updated php on the server, ensured I&#8217;m using an out-of-the-box theme, disabled plugins and done a health check.  Now the site is complaining it is not using HTTPS so as well as the original problem, I now have a new one.  Exactly as predicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point in the past something changed. I&#8217;ve no idea what or when and it wasn&#8217;t something I did. But now when I go to log in I get: wordpress login Error: cookies are blocked or not supported by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/11\/annoying-having-to-log-in-twice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,23],"tags":[319,120],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-hosting-woes","tag-blogging","tag-hosting-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}