mobile-navigation

WordPress recovering admin password via PhpMyAdmin

Updated April 14, 2017
min Read
  1. Go to the database and look up the table
    wp_users.
  2. Scroll to your username
  3. replace the value of “user_pass” with “$1$dgce9Lop$A9.gfUeaHfPFXLraMbR.L/”
    This is the MD 5 hash for the password “admin”
  4. save row and now you should be able to log in using your username and with the new password admin.
  5. Once you log in make sure to change your password to something more secure.

Categories