Archive for December, 2008

Reset your local wordpress password easily

If you forget  your wordpress password then what can you do?

Answer is here…………….Two easy methods

First Method

start mysql and login
SELECT ‘wordpress’ //this should be your database name
UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘password’ ) WHERE `ID` =1 LIMIT 1 ;

where password is your new password. Your password is reset, for the admin acount.

Second Method

Using Phpmyadmin……

By using phpmyadmin find out the wp-user table and admin user .

You will notice the password is strange, and not plain text. This is because for security reasons, WordPress stores the passwords as an MD5 hash.

We can’t just enter a normal text password, and should replace the MD5 hash of the password we don’t know with the MD5 hash of a password we do know.

To create an MD5 hash, I usually just search for “online MD5 hash” on Google, and come up with some great online tools for creating the result I need.

Example: Javacript MD5

n such tools, I enter what I want the password to be, click a button to process it, and it spits out the MD5 hash that I want to enter in the user_pass field.

Click Go to save the change, and then log in to WordPress using your new password.

Enjoy

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