{"id":129,"date":"2022-12-27T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberpower.co.il\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2023-01-18T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T16:58:11","slug":"how-to-reset-a-wordpress-password-from-phpmyadmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/how-to-reset-a-wordpress-password-from-phpmyadmin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reset a WordPress Password from phpMyAdmin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wpbeginner\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lets walk you through the easy way that you can reset your password in WordPress using phpMyAdmin. Under normal circumstances, resetting your password. <br>WordPress is quite easy you simply go to the logon screen and click on forgot my password. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem comes if you no longer have that email address that&#8217;s in your profile. <br>If your WordPress website is having issues sending email then you&#8217;ll never get that email reset link. <br>To go around that problem you can simply go into your hosting provider&#8217;s dashboard. <br>We also call that the cPanel in most cases and you can reset it using the phpMyAdmin area. <br>Now this is a bit of an advanced technique and you&#8217;ll be using the phpMyAdmin.<br>Before change on your database so we suggest that you make a backup copy of your WordPress site before proceeding. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-to-change-your-password\">To Change Your Password<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So the first thing you want to do is go ahead and log in to your WordPress hosting provider&#8217;s area it&#8217;s usually the cPanel or access the cPanel from the username and password that<br>you&#8217;ve got from your hosting provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cpanel-1-1024x557.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cpanel-1-1024x557.png 1024w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cpanel-1-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cpanel-1-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cpanel-1-1536x835.png 1536w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cpanel-1.png 1662w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we&#8217;re looking for <strong>phpMyAdmin <\/strong>so we&#8217;ll just click on this and it&#8217;ll open up the databases that we have associated with our hosting provider. <br>You probably only have one or maybe two so, so just expand the one that you know that is associated with your website. <br>Once we click on that now we&#8217;ll see all the tables that are a part of our website and the table that we&#8217;re looking for is the <strong>wp_users <\/strong>table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-1-1024x506.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-1-1024x506.png 1024w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-1-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-1-768x379.png 768w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You might also see a different prefix ahead of users like you see here that&#8217;s for security purposes but basically you&#8217;re looking for the prefix that your hosting provider gave you underscore users so what we want to do is we want to change that so let&#8217;s click Edit here and these are all the columns that we can change for this table.<br> The one that we&#8217;re looking for is the one that&#8217;s associated with our username for the website. So we want to click on this one and the field that we want to change is the password field,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pwf-1-1024x519.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pwf-1-1024x519.png 1024w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pwf-1-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pwf-1-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/pwf-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>user_pass <\/strong>field and under user underscore pass you see this really interesting password and it looks like it&#8217;s very difficult and don&#8217;t worry it&#8217;s actually not the password itself that you&#8217;re seeing it&#8217;s the encrypted version of the password.<br>So you don&#8217;t have to create one that looks this crazy so let&#8217;s go ahead and highlight this and delete that information and then we&#8217;ll go in and you can add the value that you need for your password. <br>Try and make a strong password that would be difficult for someone to guess, for simplicity I&#8217;m simply going to use this and once you&#8217;re done with that we also want to click on the <strong>function <\/strong>column because we want to re-encrypt this password and we&#8217;ll be using the <strong>md5 <\/strong>encryption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/md5-1-1024x519.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/md5-1-1024x519.png 1024w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/md5-1-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/md5-1-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/devclouds.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/md5-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So click on <strong>md5 <\/strong>and then down at the bottom let&#8217;s just click <strong>Go <\/strong>and the great thing about that is once we click go it will update our password. <br>Now you should go back and try to logged in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this is how to reset a WordPress password from phpMyAdmin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is a name that resonates with every website creator, and the numbers speak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.6 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Reset a WordPress Password from phpMyAdmin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reset a WordPress password using phpMyAdmin. 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