Comments on: Lost WordPress Admin Password and Email? How to get back into your weblog…

By: Joanna Lingham

Joanna Lingham — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:20:14 +0000

Thank you so much for this. You’ve saved me such a lot of time and stress. Your help is greatly appreciated! Jo xx

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:48:45 +0000

Thank you for the extremely simple instructions with php myadmin, and telling me not to panic. After I got to PHP MyAdmin and clicked on wp-users, I was able to see my ID, but not the password. I saw the edit that was on the same row as the user ID and password, and was able to update the e-mail address very easily using edit.

Then I went back to the lost password on the WP log in screen, and it e-mailed me a link to change my password.

I did the same for my blog on my sub-domain. Also, I think that was better if my hard drive ever crashes again. At least I know I will have the correct e-mail address for my wp account.

I would have went nuts trying to follow the instructions on the wordpress forums even with the pictures.

Live and learn, make a back up of everything including bookmarks and passwords.

By: Mano Rame

Mano Rame — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:54:22 +0000

Great time-saving info. Saw the hashkey conversion method on another blog but this is simpler.

By: Eileen Begley

Eileen Begley — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:48:06 +0000

thank you, thank you thank you! Had an old email address so could not get it reset. Changed it as you suggested. Someone messed with my site, sigh.

By: Joey G.

Joey G. — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:49:59 +0000

Ah I was about to be in freakout mode! Thank you so much for this it helped find which email I used for login.

By: Syed

Syed — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:14:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing. It solved my problem to recover lost username and password and also edit my user name within the myPHP admin. I have godaddy hosting.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:05:05 +0000

Thank you, thank you!

By: kritika

kritika — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:15:05 +0000

hi…actulay i dnt remember my word press admin password…have no user access to my word pree…have tried cliking on lost your password bt on typing email address, i get the msg “The e-mail could not be sent.
Possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function…”
PLS HELP ME RECOVER MY PASSWORD

By: Onfaisal

Onfaisal — Sat, 14 May 2011 02:52:21 +0000

Many thanks..after readomg your article i have found easy way to get my password back. I have read some articles to recover my password but they all are complited, using md5encryption. Thank a lot to give simple way.

By: alec

alec — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:32:30 +0000

Hi Vaidas,

I’d suggest following our instructions in the post above.

Thanks.