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14

WordPress - Password lost problem

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So I had someone be unable to log into their WP dashboard either because the password was wrong or lost or forgotten or whatever. AND the stupid WP forgot your password? function wasn’t working (and I still can’t get it to work). What to do? We still had access to Cpanel, so:
1. Went to another WP site where I could get in still
2. Created a new user with the password “123456″
3. Went to that site’s Cpanel interface, went to PhP MyAdmin, navigated to the “wp_users” table
4. Copied the encrypted password from that user’s record in the table
5. Logged into the problem site, and navigated to that site’s PhP MyAdmin and inserted the encrypted password into the record in the table.
6. Logged into WP.
7. Rejoiced

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