| You installed WordPress and you forgot the | | | | - the name of the table that contains the password |
| administrator's password. You'll need it back for a lot | | | | can change from version to version. WordPress made |
| of reasons. | | | | quite some changes to the table names over the |
| - you need to perform certain administrative | | | | years. |
| operations, from time to time. You must be logged as | | | | 3. You can use only FTP and simple search to reset |
| an administrator do do that. | | | | WordPress administrator's password |
| - if you are the sole author, usually you'll publish as an | | | | Try to think as the program. What the program does |
| administrator | | | | is simple: |
| - if you posted as an administrator and you got a reply, | | | | - it compares the password you enter with the |
| you have to get inside the adminstrative panel in order | | | | password from the WordPress database |
| to approve it or to delete it. | | | | - if they are identical, it will let you access the |
| The password is stored in the WordPress MySQL | | | | administrative panel |
| database, in the encrypted form. In order to reset it, | | | | - otherwise, it will ask you to enter another password. |
| you have several choices. | | | | The above behaviour can be changed. There is only |
| 1. You can use the link "I forgot the password" to | | | | one character, from one file, that needs to be changed. |
| receive a reset link by eMail. The problem is that, | | | | After changing it, the system will allow you to login |
| sometimes, you don't receive that eMail. | | | | using any WRONG password. Once inside, you can |
| Possible reasons for not getting the eMail: | | | | reset the password, by using the WordPress' |
| - you set a wrong eMail address when you created | | | | interface. Guess what? WordPress will not ask you |
| the blog | | | | for the current password. |
| - the eMail is filtered by the ISP's SPAM filter and you | | | | Method 3 has some exceptional advantages: |
| don't have access to it | | | | - it works with ANY version of WordPress, because |
| - the hosting server is simply not sending the eMail. | | | | it's not influenced by the changes of the tables from |
| 2. You can access the database, using PHP MyAdmin. | | | | the WordPress' database. |
| This method is very hard to do because: | | | | - it's by far the most safer, because you're not playing |
| - you might not have PHP MyAdmin available and your | | | | with the database, but with some plain text files. |
| hosting company will not allow you to install it | | | | - it does not need PHP MyAdmin to work. You only |
| - you need to know MySQL well enough to be able to | | | | need FTP access to transfer back and forth one file |
| write an encrypted password in the database | | | | from the server to your computer. |