Trouble saving changes to light sail Wordpress settings file tagline

Question

I lost the pw for my light sail Wordpress site. I reset the pw via sql commands. I can now get in, but when I save changes to Wordpress Settings, the changes do not propagate to the site. In particular I can not get the updated site tagline to update. It stubbornly remains the original setting and I want to change it. I have tried forcing a new reload in my MacOs Chrome browser, and in Safari, but the site stubbornly retains the original tagline. I am wondering if this has something to do with updating my password via SQL command line like so:
UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = md5('new_password') WHERE ID = 1; it worked. I can edit the site via the WP dashboard, but there seems to be a communication problem with resetting the tagline. thanks for any help. Jim Allison

Answer

Hi

I don't believe changing the user password via the database has anything to do with this. I am managing a bunch of WordPress sites and have done this countless times.

If there is a caching plugin installed within the site (Ex: nitropack) or if there is a cashing function in your host, try clearing the cache on that end.

Assuming everything else is working and this is only related to the tagline. We can try to change this from the functions.php file or directly from the database.

1. Updating the functions.php -> Add the following line to your functions.php file

```bash
update_option( ‘blogdescription’, “put your site tagline here” );
```

2. Update the database -> On the **wp-options** table change the **blogdescription** field.

Hope this helps.

Trouble saving changes to light sail Wordpress settings file tagline

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