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How to Recover the WordPress Password

You’ll have to be a superman to remember all your passwords, all your life. It is quite probable that you’ll forget your WordPress password one fine day. Is there a way out? Yes, and this article attempts to take you through the steps you need to undertake to recover your WordPress password. A WordPress login page gives you an option to find out your forgotten password by clicking on the ‘forgot your password’ link. If, however, for some reasons you do not get your password, you do not have to lose heart. Here’s how you recover it. This method uses cPanel to recover your lost WordPress password.

Select the phpMyAdmin on the homepage of the cPanel, and then go to the database of the website for which you wish to recover a forgotten password. This list is on the left side of the screen. Locate wp_users, as shown in this figure, and then click on the browse icon. This is the first from the icons to the right side of wp_users.

Recover the WordPress Password

The window that opens up now has a list of usernames and passwords, although the passwords are in the encoded form. Identify the username for which you seek a forgotten password, and then click on the icon that looks like a pencil, as indicated in the image below.

WordPress Password recovery

Now, you’ll be taken to a screen having data for the specified username, and the encoded password. What you’ve got to do here is to delete the coded password you see, and key in a simple password in ASCII, for instance, CHANGE. Now, observe a little black arrow to the left of the password. Click on it, and a pull down menu will appear. Select MD5 from this, and then click on the GO option at the bottom of the window.

Finally, go to the login page of the website, enter the username and the newly set password. Once you are able to login, change the password to something more complex, and something that you can memorize more easily.

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