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How To Reset Your WordPress Admin Password

Ryan Gray

Published on: January 26, 2017

Categories: WordPress 0

Bookmark this page… You’re going to eventually need it 🙂

I don’t know about you, but I run so many installations of WordPress, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the logins.

Sure, I have a good password manager, but sometimes things get mixed up and I find myself needing a password reset.  Unfortunately, I not always remember what admin email I used at signup (I know that’s terrible).

Reset WordPress Password In phpMyAdmin

Anyways, I figured out a VERY easy way to reset your wp-admin password as long as you have access to phpMyAdmin.  All NameHero customers can find this inside of cPanel -> PHP MyAdmin.

Here’s a video tutorial:

Pretty simple huh?  It’s saved me a lot of times so that’s why I said to make sure you remember this post!

How To Reset Your WordPress Admin Password

  1. Login to cPanel
  2. Click on phpMyAdmin
  3. Select your database on the left
  4. Click your users table
  5. Click edit beside the admin user
  6. Change the Function of user_pass to MD5
  7. Enter your password in the field
  8. Click Go

Go back to your WordPress admin and make sure your information is secure!

As always – our team is available 24x7x365 to help you out!

Ryan Gray
Ryan Gray

Ryan Gray is the founder and CEO of NameHero, one of the fastest growing independent web hosts in the United States. Ryan has been working online since 1998 and has over two-decades experience in Internet Entrepreneurship.

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