WP Login Fails After Importing Site via "All In One WP Migration" Plugin

After importing my site as soon as I go to settings to save the permalinks twice, it logs me out and asks me to log in again. Tried the following and nothing works. o.O

  • login/pw used to set up initial site
  • login/pw of live wp site
  • reset pw - doesn’t accept email “dev-email@flywheel.local”

I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the site a few times with the same results.

I can see the site, just can’t login to the site.

SOLVED! The WP site being cloned to Local by Flywheel is hosted on Bluehost. Bluehost has a ‘login to wordpress’ button that takes you directly into the site. Not sure what info the button is passing but it’s not exactly the same as the what is used to login to the account. Here’s how I got around it…

  • Create a new user on WP site with admin permissions
  • Activate the new admin account
  • Close the WP site and login to the WP site with the new admin credentials
  • Export the site again
  • Import it into Local again

You should now be able to login to the imported site using your newly minted admin account credentials.