Reseting WordPress Password
Today I faced very interesting problem with WordPress, actually I may not blame WordPress for all what happened to me today. I was reading about WordPress Attack Under Way so I decided to update all of my blogs. Updating was done smoothly, Unfortunately I forgot username/password and also contact email, so there was absolutely no way to reset the password as the resting option only work if you remember either user name or email address. I tried my level best to find a solution I did lot of searching but at last I found a way of changing both password and email address.
If you remember either User name or Email Address then you can easily reset it from wp-admin page.
On clicking Lost Your Password you will be taken to page asking you to enter user name or email address to reset your password, But what if you forgot both user name/email address as it was the case happened with me. Don’t worry I will tell you how to recover your password.
Follow the following steps.
- Login to your Cpanel Account.
- Once Logged in to Cpanel, Go to PhpMyAdmin.
- Select the Database of WordPress blog for which you want password to be reset.
- Locate the wp_users table (normally the last row), and then click on the Browse icon under Action column on the same line.
- Locate the user_login which the password want to be recovered and reset, and then click on the Edit button in front of the line.
- Under the user_pass field, delete everything in the corresponding Value field on the same line.
- Enter a new desired password (case sensitive) in the now empty Value text box, i.e. NEW PASSWORD in the illustration.
- Select MD5 in the Function field drop-down menu.
- Click on Go button to save and reset the password.
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