How To Reset WordPress Password Without Email
The Goal
In this guide, you are going to learn, how to reset WordPress password for your website.
Besides that, you will also learn how to reset your WordPress password even if you forget your username or without the email you enter previously during your WordPress installation.
If you remember your username or email
- The normal password reset process if you remember your username or email that you can get access is to go to yourdomain.com/wp-admin & click on the lost your password link.
- WordPress will then email the reset password link to your registered email & you can click on that link to reset your password.
If you forgot your username or email
- If you have forgotten your username, email, or you do not have access to the registered email, there is another way to reset your WordPress password by using your WordPress database.
- To do that, login to your hosting control panel & look for PhpMyAdmin function & login to your database
- Select the correct database for your WordPress installation that you want to reset the password. You can check if you are selecting the right database name by go to the database wp_option table to see the URL is the right database you want.
- After you confirm on the right database, go to wp_users table > click edit > go to user_pass & change the password you want.
- After that, select the dropdown menu beside your password & select MD5 encryption. This step is to encrypt the password you enter so that if anyone login to your PhpMyAdmin will not see your real password. They will just see a series of code.
- Remember to click on the Go button at the bottom to save your password.
Login using your new password
Try login using your new password. If you are still unable to login, check again the above steps if you miss out some important task.
If you would like to enhance a little to hide your default login page from your visitors, you may refer to this guide here.
