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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

How to change or find your wordpress password

How to change or find your wordpress password



To Change Your Password
To change your password in current versions:

In the Admin Panel menu, go to USERS
Click on your username in the list to edit
In the Edit User screen, scroll down to the New Password section and type in a new password in the two boxes provided. The strength box will show how good (strong) your password is.
Click the UPDATE PROFILE button
Your new password takes effect immediately.
Through the automatic emailer
If you know your username and the email account in your profile, you can use the "lost password" feature of WordPress.

Go to your WordPress Login page (something like http://yoursite.com/wordpress/wp-login.php)
Click on lost password
You will be taken to a page to put in some details. Enter your user name and the email address on file for that account.
Wait happily as your new password is emailed to you.
Once you get your new password, login and change it to something you can remember on your profile page.
Through MySQL Command Line
Get an MD5 hash of your password.
Visit md5 Hash Generator, or...
Create a key with Python. or...
On Unix/Linux:
Create file wp.txt with the new password in it (and *nothing* else)
md5sum wp.txt
rm wp.txt
"mysql -u root -p" (log in to MySQL)
enter your mysql password
"use (name-of-database)" (select WordPress database)
"show tables;" (you're looking for a table name with "users" at the end)
"SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM (name-of-table-you-found)" (this gives you an idea of what's going on inside)
"UPDATE (name-of-table-you-found) SET user_pass="(MD5-string-you-made)" WHERE ID = (id#-of-account-you-are-reseting-password-for)" (actually changes the password)
"SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM (name-of-table-you-found)" (confirm that it was changed)
(type Control-D, to exit mysql client)
Note if you have a recent version of MySQL (version 5.x?) you can have MySQL compute the MD5 hash for you.

Skip step 1. above.
Do the following for step 7. instead.
"UPDATE (name-of-table-you-found) SET user_pass = MD5('"(new-password)"') WHERE ID = (id#-of-account-you-are-reseting-password-for)" (actually changes the password)
Through phpMyAdmin
This article is for those who have phpMyAdmin access to their database. Note: use phpMyAdmin at your own risk. If you doubt your ability to use it, seek further advice. WordPress is not responsible for loss of data.

Begin by logging into phpMyAdmin and click databases.




A list of databases will appear. Click your WordPress database.



All the tables in your database will appear. If not, click Structure.
Look for wp_users.
Click on the icon for browse.
Locate your Username under user_login
Click edit



Your user_id will be shown, click on Edit
Next to the user_pass is a long list of numbers and letters.
Select and delete these and type in your new password.
Type in the password you want to use. Just type it in normally, but remember, it is case-sensitive.
In this example, the new password will be 'rabbitseatcarrots'
Once you have done that, click the dropdown menu indicated, and select MD5 from the menu.



Check that your password is actually correct, and that MD5 is in the box.
Click the 'Go' button to the bottom right.
Test the new password on the login screen. If it doesn't work, check that you've followed these instructions exactly.

Other Tutorials using phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin at tamba2
Reset a WordPress password from phpMyAdmin
Through FTP
There is also an easy way to reset your password via FTP, if you're using the admin user.

1. Login to your site via FTP and download your active theme's functions.php file.

2. Edit the file and add this code to it, right at the beginning, after the first < ? php: wp_set_password('password',1); Put in your own new password for the main admin user. The "1" is the user ID number in the wp_users table. 3. Upload the modified file back to your site. 4. After you then are able to login, make sure to go back and remove that code. It will reset your password on every page load until you do. Using the Emergency Password Reset Script If the other solutions listed above won't work, then try the Emergency Password Reset Script. It is not a Plugin. It is a PHP script. Warnings Requires you know the administrator username. It updates the administrator password and sends an email to the administrator's email address. If you don't receive the email, the password is still changed. You do not need to be logged in to use it. If you could login, you wouldn't need the script. Place this in the root of your WordPress installation. Do not upload this to your WordPress Plugins directory. Delete the script when you are done for security reasons. Directions for use Copy the emergency script from Emergency Password Script and put into a file called emergency.php in the root of your WordPress installation (the same directory that contains wp-config.php). In your browser, open http://example.com/emergency.php. As instructed, enter the administrator username (usually admin) and the new password, then click Update Options. A message is displayed noting the changed password. An email is sent to the blog administrator with the changed password information. Delete emergency.php from your server when you are done. Do not leave it on your server as someone else could use it to change your password. Changing your password in older versions To change your password in WordPress v1.2: In the Admin Panel, go to PROFILE Scroll down to the bottom and type in the new password in the two boxes provided Click the UPDATE PROFILE button Your new password takes effect immediately. To change your password in WordPress v1.5: In the Admin Panel, go to USERS From the "Your Profile" tab, scroll to the bottom and type in the new password in the two boxes provided. Click the UPDATE PROFILE button Your new password takes effect immediately. To change your password in WordPress v2.0: In the Admin Panel, go to USERS (or Profile) From the "Your Profile" tab, scroll down to the Update Your Password section and type in a new password in the two boxes provided. Click the UPDATE PROFILE button Your new password takes effect immediately. http://www.unlimiteddownloadebooks.com



http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password

How to Successfully Transfer wordpress website to a new domain and web hosting

How to Successfully Transfer wordpress website to a new domain and web hosting.


To transfer to a new domain and web hosting you need to first, copy the entire

wordpress website and here is how to do this.

If the wordpress website is at the root directory /

select all of the files and folders, the compress it and name the directory
your website name for tracking down what the site is about. It could be

chatwordpress.zip download this to your pc.

If it's in a sub folder www.mysite.com/wordpress then just right click on that

folder, then compress it and download it to pc.


Next go to your phpmyadmin witch is in your cpanel, pick the database that setup

this website, go to export at the top menu.

Export Method; click on

Custom - display all possible options



Format; select sql


Click go!


sql file download pops up with

mydata_wp.sql


download it to your pc, choose save file so you know where to download it at,

lets download it to the desktop.






Now we have saved all our wordpress website by downloading the whole website to

our pc, and we then saved our sql file, now its time to put this on our new

hosting and new domain.




Let's login to the new domain cpanel, install wordpress through cpanel.


Now lets go to the files we have saved of wordpress, we need to take out the

wp-config.php


put it somewhere as a backup, but you wont need this in the new site



Zip up the website again, and then upload it to the new host, extract it and now

go to phpmyadmin, pick the wordpress database, once inside that database, select

all the database entries and drop/delete them.

Now Let's go to import and import that wordpress sql file in to this database


Browse your computer option, choose a file button, insert the sql file.

Character set of the file; select utf-8


format; select sql



format specific options; sql compatibility mode; leave blank

check this box Do not use auto_increment for zero values

then click go!


sql file is now imported


That's it!

Now you have your orginal wordpress website!



All done!


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