How to recover lost WordPress Admin password or E-mail

What do you do if you don’t remember your Admin password to your WordPress blog?

You could simply click the “Lost password” link on the admin page.  This will send an E-mail to the address that is listed for the Admin.  But what if you don’t remember what E-mail address you used for the Admin?

You’re OK as long as you have access to the database for your WordPress install.

• Login to the control panel that is hosting your web server
• Launch the PHP MyAdmin
• Select the database that is for your WordPress install
• Select “wp_users” from the list of tables on the righ-hand side
• On the main screen will be a list of registered users from your WordPress install.  Find the one that you want to change the password for and edit that entry
• Now, simply past the string “$P$Bq8Zk0hCxoUDcKV8jcmymS1Q10dQbz0″ into the password field

This has set your password back to “password”.  Now you can login and change your password to something else.

You can also change the E-mail address of a user account using steps 1-5 above and just change the E-mail field instead of the password field.  This might be useful if you need to change the E-mail address of a user on you blog without changing their password.

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