{"id":501,"date":"2011-07-18T09:31:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T09:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knowledgement.ie\/?p=501"},"modified":"2011-07-18T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T09:31:26","slug":"reset-wordpress-admin-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.targetintegration.com\/en\/reset-wordpress-admin-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset WordPress Admin Password"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again when migrating customers from one hosting\/support provider or website developer there is almost always a case that the previous developer doesn’t remember the admin password. In those cases you have to reset the password by going to the database directly.<\/p>\n

You can use PHPMyAdmin or MySQL Command Line to update the password as described below:<\/p>\n

PHPMyAdmin<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open PHPMyAdmin and go to the WordPress Database<\/li>\n
  2. Click the table wp_users; this will open up the content of the database. One of the top one will be admin.<\/li>\n
  3. Click the little pencil icon in front of the row with user_login as admin (or any other user)<\/li>\n
  4. In the new form which opens select MD5 from the dropdown of field called user_pass<\/li>\n
  5. Type the new password in value field and click Go this will save the new password in the required MD5 format<\/li>\n
  6. That’s it you are now ready to login with the new password for the admin user (or any other user that you used in step 3)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    MySQL Command Line<\/strong><\/div>\n

    You can use MySQL command line as well to update the password. Login to MySQL command line using the following:<\/p>\n

    {code}mysql -u <username> -p{\/code}<\/p>\n

    The above command will ask for a password. Once you have provided that you will now be logged in to MySQL command line.<\/p>\n

    Now use the database for your WordPress installation<\/p>\n

    {code}USE <database name>;{\/code}<\/p>\n

    Now you can use the following command to reset the password for the admin user. Admin user has an ID of 1 if you want to reset some other user’s ID then you will need his ID.<\/p>\n

    {code}UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘<MyNewPassword’ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`ID` =1;{\/code}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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