Site redirect setting has made it impossible to log in.

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Edit: OK, I was able to get in. Played around with the PHP in a cached button from the Wayback Machine and was able to get logged in enough to get to the wp-admin/dashboard page. God bless bad security. My mother had changed the “WordPress Address (URL)” and “Site Address (URL)” fields on Site1 to be the address of Site2 and it royally messed everything up. Reverted the changes and we can access Site1 the way we’re supposed to now.

Context…

My mother’s church is migrating to a new website because they don’t like the old one, and the guy who maintained it is no longer able to do so. I’ll call the old site Site1. My mother used WordPress.com to build a site, which I’ll call Site2, that everyone really likes and they want to use.

Now here’s the problem. To redirect everyone to the new site a setting having to do with redirects was changed on Site1, with the hope of sending potential visitors to Site2. The result of this is when you go to the wp-login.php extension of Site1’s URL, the login button’s submit action forwards you to Site2’s login screen. The account on Site2 has no association with the user accounts on Site1, so the older site is not accessible from the Sites list.

This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if going to site1’s URL redirected immediately to site2. After the setting was changed all of the paths to the images and pages of site1 have site2’s URL stapled to the front of them lol. So Site1 looks like an archival snapshot of a late 90’s website on the WaybackMachine…

I’ve been trying to break the redirect in Chrome & Edge to no success to log back into Site1 and find whatever setting had been changed. Does anyone know of a way to get back into Site1 without being redirected to Site2?

Obviously, no one involved is a webdev. I’m a software developer, but webdev is not familiar to me beyond circumventing some things in the inspector. Just trying to get my mom’s church’s website situation sorted.

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