Recover a Lost WordPress Password
By Randy Jensen | Mar 30, 2009
Recently I had a client contact me and tell me they lost their WordPress password and couldn’t get into their account. I guess they had the wrong email in there and couldn’t use the ‘Lost Password’ feature either. Luckily, there’s a ‘not too difficult’ method for resetting your password (or more than likely your favorite client’s password).
I’m going to be using cPanel and PHPMyAdmin for this, but you should be able to do it with whatever system your host is using to allow you to manage your DB’s.
- Login to cPanel and look for phpMyAdmin
- Look for your database to the blog you forgot the password to on the left hand side
- Look for the ‘wp_users’ table and click the ‘Browse’ button
- Find your username/user ID and click the edit button next to it
