Comments on: How to Reset a WordPress Password from phpMyAdmin

By: rradvani

rradvani — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:46:54 +0000

great saved me !!! thanks wpbeginner!!

By: sharphue

sharphue — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:21:44 +0000

See that user_email field in the screenshot above? Just change the value to an e-mail address that you have access to. On the WP-Admin login screen, click “lost your password?” and type in the same e-mail address and you will receive a reset password link that will be easier than messing with MD5 hashing.

By: Oluniyi D. Ajao

Oluniyi D. Ajao — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:31:18 +0000

Thank you very much. You saved me having to re-install a WordPress installation.

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:32:10 +0000

WordPress already has that built-in. You just have to add your own security keys in your wp-config.php file. Open it and you will see the place for it and a link where you can get your security keys from.

By: W^L+

W^L+ — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:36:27 +0000

There has been some talk about web applications moving to a hash of the password + another string, to make it harder for bad guys to get in. Do you think this is coming to WP soon? (I think Joomla and Drupal are already doing this.)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:38:57 +0000

Under the functions column, if you choose MD5, MySQl will automatically encrypt your password in MD5. Simply type your plaintext password in the main box.

This is a little easier than using other sites.

By: kusanagi

kusanagi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:34:56 +0000

very helpful, thanks.

By: Utkarsh

Utkarsh — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:42:31 +0000

You can also enter the password in plain text, and select MD5 from the function dropdown. It’ll automatically save the MD5 hash of the password in the database.

By: Jaspal

Jaspal — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:02:52 +0000

Thnx .. that’s a great tip .. it will be very helpful for me