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How To: Reset WordPress Administrator Password via Cpanel

By: on Nov 23, 2010 | No Comments

What do you do if you’ve lost your WordPress administrator password and the email you registered the account with you no longer have access to?

All hope is not lost and in fact, it can be set to a new password quite easily and quickly with PHPMyAdmin.  Here’s how….

  1. Open up Cpanel or otherwise access PHPMyAdmin
  2. Go to the database of your particular blog/site that you are missing the password for
  3. Go to the table wp_users and click on it
  4. Click on the pencil (edit) icon next to the user you want to reset the password for
  5. Look for the column user_pass
  6. Remove the text and type in a new password of your choosing
  7. Under function, use the pulldown and select MD5 from the list
  8. In the lower right, press GO

Now go back to the blog/site where you were having trouble logging in and give your new password a try.  Like magic, you’re back in!

For those of you video oriented, you can watch me do it live in the below video and follow along if need be.

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