Resetting WordPress Admin Password

It is evident that forgetting passwords is a common human trait. It can occasionally be quite important to recover a lost password. We will look at how to get your lost WordPress admin password back today (wp-admin).

It can be recovered by the following ways:

1. By using ‘Lost Password’ option.
2. By using PhpMyAmin in cPanel.
3. By using FTP.
4. By using the Emergency Password Reset Script.

In this article, we are going to see the first 3 options, leaving the 4th option.

# 1. By using ‘Lost Password’ option.

If you know the username or the email account of your WordPress, then you can use the ‘Lost Password’ utility and reset the password.

a. Go to http://mydomainsite.com/wordpress/wp-login.php, which is your WordPress login page. (NOTE: Depending on how you want to install WordPress, the URL may change).

b. Hit the ‘Lost your password?’ option

c. Insert the username or email address and click on ‘Get New Password’

4. An email with a link to reset password will be delivered at the email address registered at the time of WordPress installation.
5. Click the link in the email and it will open the page to reset password. Enter twice a strong new and at least twelve characters long password, then click ‘Reset Password.’

# 2. By using PhpMyAmin in cPanel.
You can the WordPress password in the database with the help of phpMyAdmin in cPanel. NOTE: You must have cPanel access in order to do so.

a. Log into your cPanel.
b. Now under ‘Databases’ section, click ‘phpMyAdmin’

c. Click on the name of your WordPress database. Now click on ‘wp_users’ table and then ‘edit’ it.

d. On the next page type in or copy/paste your new password into ‘user_pass’ box, select MD5 in Function column and click Go to finish.

#3. By using FTP.

This method can be used when you don’t have access to your WordPress database or instead of the above two methods.

a. Use your favorite FTP program, such as FileZilla or CyberDuck, to connect to the data on your website. Then, go to the themes section of your WordPress installation and download the functions.php file to your computer. My path to the file, for instance, is as follows:

/home/demopara/public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyfifteen/functions.php

b. Edit the functions.php on your pc and on line 2, right after the first <?php line add the following code/line:
wp_set_password(‘xxxxxx’,’admin’);

NOTE: Make sure to replace ‘xxxxxx’ (without quotes) with your preferred password, and user ‘admin’ (without quotes) with your actual WordPress username.

c. Save the file and upload it file back to your /themes folder under your hosting account on the server.
d. Now login to your WordPress admin area with the temporarily set password.
e. Proceed to delete the wp_set_password line from your computer’s functions.php file and upload the file again using the instructions above. By doing this, WordPress would stop resetting the password each time you accessed the admin area.

#4. By using the Emergency Password Reset Script. 
You need to do as instructed at the following url in order to use the Emergency Password Reset Script 
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH/Orphaned_Plugins_needing_Adoption/Emergency
That’s all !