{"id":231,"date":"2016-08-27T02:29:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T02:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiki.samuelchopard.ch\/?p=231"},"modified":"2019-03-18T14:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:29:26","slug":"changereset-wordpress-password-in-the-database-phpmyadmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/library\/changereset-wordpress-password-in-the-database-phpmyadmin\/","title":{"rendered":"Change\/reset WordPress password in the database PHPMyAdmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This method involves editing and updating the wp_users table values to reset our lost WordPress password. The method is little longer but is also easy enough to follow without a lot of technical knowledge.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Connect to your host and access PHPMyAdmin<\/li>\n<li>Click on your WordPress database (<em>_wpXXXXXX<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to and click the table <em>wp_users<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Edit the row with your WordPress username<\/li>\n<li>Now, in the user_pass field, change the function to MD5 and enter your new password in the <em>Value<\/em> section<\/li>\n<li>Click \u201cGo\u201d or similar option at the bottom to update the table values<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wpcrux.com\/change-wordpress-password-phpmyadmin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/wpcrux.com\/change-wordpress-password-phpmyadmin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This method involves editing and updating the wp_users table values to reset our lost WordPress password. The method is little [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[175,190,209,213,247],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-manually","tag-mysql","tag-password","tag-phpmyadmin","tag-reset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54919,"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/54919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuelchopard.ch\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}