If you find yourself blocked from accessing your website, you can take the following steps to unblock yourself:
1. Log in to your web hosting control panel and open phpMyAdmin.
2. Select the appropriate database from the left sidebar.
3. Locate and click on the table named wp_options
(or similar).
4. Find the row with the option_name
column value blocked_ips
.
5. Click on the Edit button next to this row.
6. In the option_value field, remove your IP address from the list of blocked IPs.
7. Click the Go or Save button to save your changes.
Here's an example of how the blocked_ips
value in phpadmin might look before and after if your IP is 104.168.1.102:
Before:
["192.168.1.100", "192.168.1.101", "104.168.1.102"]
After:
["192.168.1.100", "192.168.1.102"]
Note: The phpmyadmin tool is powerful and you could cause harm if you do not know what you are doing. Be careful.