I administer quite a few WordPress sites around the internet, and recently I had to make changes to a site, where I had simply lost the password. I tried all the usual combinations, and the e-mail that was registered as the administrator e-mail, I no longer had access to.
So, when you are in this situation, and you cannot remember your password, there are three things you can do:
- Reset the password using WordPress’ built in system. This requires you have access to the e-mail you used to register your blog with.
- Using PHPMyAdmin (or something similar) to manually change the password directly in the MySQL database.
- Use the smart little tool created a long time ago, called WordPress Emergency PassWord Reset.
It is simply a small .php file that you download to your blog using FTP, and then open up using your browser.
Please see the instructions here, directly from the post:
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- Unpack the zip.
- Upload emergency.php to the root of your WordPress install (the same directory that contains wp-config.php)
- Open http://www.yourdomain.com/emergency.php in your favorite browser.
- Follow the simple instructions.
- When you are done, delete emergency.php off your server. Do not leave it up for someone else to come along and use.
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Excellent post, thanks for the tip. From this critic, thumbs up.
Thank you Whisper ๐
Does this also work for wordpress 2.8 version?
please reply soon like in next 10 minutes
waiting for ur reply
apprecite it if u reply soon
thanks
Hi nitin
I hope I was fast enough, I am not ALWAYS online, but I try to be ๐ I have not tested it on version 2.8, latest version i checked on was 2.7.1, but as far as I can see, 2.8 have not had changes in that area, so it should also work.
REMEMBER to remove the file afterwards, otherwise its a big open welcome mat to people who try to hack WordPress sites.
Usefull article! Hello from Russia!
Hi Sergei
Thank you, and hello back from Barcelona, Spain! ๐