Resetting Wordpress Passwords

Jun 30 2008

Published by Tom at 9:20 am under Blogging, Webmaster Advice

I purchased a new computer and I had lost my passwords for one of my blogs. For some reason when I hit lost password screen, the reset key that was sent to me was invalid. I was in a panic because I did not know much about resetting it through my cpanel on my hosting server.

I found the information after some searching and thought I would share it for any others who may run into the same problem.

Fort you need to go to phpMyAdmin and open the database that you have your Word press Blog. Find the users and hit browse. Find the User that is yours (the admin) and click edit. Now you need to search Google and find a md5 hasher and type in your new password and it will generate a code. Place this code into the password field and hit go to save. This should reset your password to a new password and you should be able to access your blog admin.

I hope this helps someone else because I know how it feels to not be able to figure out how to get into your admin panel.

3 Responses to “Resetting Wordpress Passwords”

# balochon 30 Jun 2008 at 9:58 am

thanks i had to reinstall it all over again because when i went into phpmyadmin i just put in another password for admin but it did not work. Thanks for the heads up on md5 hasher. One of the easiest way to keep your passwords safe is at home on a notepad.
# LGRon 12 Jul 2008 at 11:18 am

This should not work with WordPress 2.5 and up any more. Prior to WordPress 2.5 passwords were stored as MD5 hashes but 2.5 and up their should also be a salt (a random phrase) added to the MD5 hash. The MD5 hash you see in the database is no longer just your password. There might be another way to do it though.
# Tomon 12 Jul 2008 at 8:12 pm

I have 2.5 and it does work. I reset my password just fine and had no further problems.

Thanks for the comment!