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How to reset your WordPress admin password?

Posted by admin On April - 21 - 2009

Do you have a blog via wordpress? If you forget your admin password,it is very annoyed. So I will tell you how to reset my WordPress admin password? You have to do this through the WordPress database directly. The most convenient way to manage the database is via the phpMyAdmin tool at your web hosting account. Once in phpMyAdmin select the WordPress database from the drop-down menu on the left. The page will refresh and the database’s tables will be displayed on it. Open the SQL tab (look at the top navigation bar). In the text field write the following SQL query: UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password_here’ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “admin_username”; “new_password_here” - replace this with the new password you wish to use. “admin_username” - replace this with the username the password should be updated for. Once you are ready, click on the GO button to submit the query. If everything goes fine without errors, you should be able to login to WordPress with the new password.

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5 Responses to “How to reset your WordPress admin password?”

  1. Fructuoso says:

    Thank you for this post!

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  2. Tk says:

    That ‘new_password_here’ should be “new_password_here”

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  3. Suk Portal says:

    Amazing site. My co-workers and I were just talking about this the other evening. Also your site looks great on my old palm treo. Now thats uncommon. Keep it up.

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