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[How-To Guide] Reset WordPress Password From PHPMyAdmin

In earlier posts, some basic tutorials covered to help you in getting started with WordPress:

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress on WordPress

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress Theme

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress Plugin

How-To Guide on Scheduling Post in WordPress

How-To Guide on Renaming “Uncategorized” Category in WordPress

How-To Guide on Enabling Keyboard Shortcuts For Comment Moderation

How-To Guide on Changing Auto-Generated Password

How-To Guide on Recovering Lost Password In WordPress

How-To Guide on Adding Multiple Blogs

How-To Guide on Enabling WordPress MU In WordPress Blog

How-To Guide on Enabling Multi-Site Options in WordPress

These basic tutorials make you familiar with WordPress. Already, I have offered how-to guide on Back-Up WordPress Database by Using PHPMyAdmin and now in this post I offer you a step-by-step guide on resetting password from PHPMyAdmin.

Step1: Log-in into cpanel by typing

http://domainname.com/cpanel

Step2: Now in cPanel, click on PHPMyAdmin option as shown below:

Step3: Now, in PHPMyAdmin you need to select database from left hand side.

Step4: After Selecting database look for file name wp_users (as shown below) and click on it.

Step5: In navigation tab click on “Browse” and after it click on “pencil icon” as shown below:

Step6: Clicking on “pencil icon”, open a new screen (as shown below):

Step7: To reset password you have to edit user_pass field value. In above field (marked by 2) it contain random characters in password field.

WordPress automatically offer a lot of security options and try to lower the loop holes for hackers. The reason for random characters is that WordPress store password in MD5 HASH format than storing it in plain text.

Step8: WordPress store password in MD5 HASH format, which mean you are not allowed to enter password in plain text. To reset password you need MD5 generators, such as JavaScript MD5 (convert plain text into MD5 format as shown below).

For me the plain text is “WebGuide4U” and the result (as shown above in random characters)

Step9: Now copy result and paste this value in user_pass field on right hand side (as shown below){compare the value in step6 and step9 you find the difference}. After pasting new value click on “Go” button to reset the password.

Step10: Congratulations, you have successfully reset the WordPress Password from PHPMyAdmin.

Let me know if you have any question?

Warning:

PHPMyAdmin is a powerful tool, so use it with care and if you are unable to reset password then hire me, I will do it for you.

Remember, if some data lost, then don’t blame me. This guide is for advanced users only, not for newbie.

[How-To Guide] Change Auto-Generated Password In WordPress

Already, In earlier post I talk about recovering password in WordPress. Now you have recover forgotten password and this password grant access to admin panel.

Remember, this is an auto-generated password which you have to change. Changing auto-generated password is quite easy and anyone can change it in few minutes. Just follow step-by-step guide on changing auto-generated password.

Step1: Log-in into wp-admin panel.

Step2: In WordPress Dashboard, you see that it is asking you to change auto-generated password.

Step3: Now, click on “Yes, take me to my profile page” option and it will redirect to profile page, where you have to change the password (as shown below).

Step4: Congratulations, you have successfully change the default auto-generated password.

Do let me know in comment section, if you face any error while changing auto-generated password??

[How-To Guide] Recover WordPress Password

Already, I have cover some basic tutorial on WordPress in the form of how-to guides. Some of them are:

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress on Hostgator

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress Theme

How-To Guide on Installing Plugin in WordPress

How-To Guide on Scheduling Post in WordPress

How-To Guide on Renaming “Uncategorized” Category in WordPress

How-To Guide on Adding Multiple Blog

How-To Guide on Enabling WordPress MU in WordPress Blog

How-To Guide on Enabling Multi-Site Option in WordPress

Continuing in same series of basic tutorial on WordPress, this post focus on recovering password in WordPress.

Step1: First type URL of your blog and it is something like this:

http://yourdomainname.com/wp-admin

Step2: After typing this URL in browser, you have been ask to give username and password (as shown below).

Step3: In case, if you forget password and want to recover it, then click on “Lost your password” (as shown below).

Step4: After clicking on “Lost your password”, you have been redirect to new screen as shown below:

Step5: Now you have to type your email or username and click on “Get New Password” (as shown below).

Step6: After hitting “Get New Password” button, you will see a new screen (as shown below). Now you have been ask to log-in into inbox and click on confirmation link.

Step7: After clicking on confirmation link in inbox you will see a new screen (as shown below). Now, you have to again check your inbox for new password.

Step8: In e-mail inbox you will get your username and password. Now simply put that username and password in required fields and log-in into wp-admin panel.

Step9: Congratulations, you have successfully recover your password and enjoy fearless blogging 🙂

If you face any problem while recovering password do let me know in comment section. You can also follow WebGuide4U on Twitter or like us on Facebook to get all the updates on WordPress Tutorials.

[WordPress Hack] View Hidden Secret Option Panel In WordPress

WordPress offer lot of options and some users are unaware of these options. Today, I came across a new option and thought like to share it with my readers also.

This option panel is hidden because it has all the settings of your blog and it is something that you don’t want to mess up.

Before typing this URL you have to log in your wp-admin panel so that you can easily see all the settings of your blog.

Just type this URL in the browser

http://domainname.com/wp-admin/options.php (replace domain name with you blog name)

After typing this URL you will see something like this (as shown below):

In the screen-shot you can see some of the settings of my blog.

Note: Don’t try to change any of settings or any value.

Do let us know in the comment section about this hidden feature of WordPress??

If you are new to WordPress then these tutorials will be helpful to you:

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress on Hostgator

How-To Guide on Installing WordPress Theme

How-To Guide on Installting WordPress Plugin

How-To Guide on Scheduling Post In WordPress

How-To Guide on Renaming Uncategorized In WordPress

How-To Guide on Enabling Keyboard Shortcuts For Comment Moderation

How-To Guide on Adding Multiple Blogs

How-To Guide on Enabling WordPress MU In WordPress Blog

How-To Guide on Enabling Multi-Site Options In WordPress

[How-To Guide] Disable Visual Editor In WordPress

WordPress has lots of features and I have covered some of them in the form of how-to guide. One of the feature that I came across is Visual Editor. Visual Editor make writing post easy, but in some cases especially when you have a line break, it ends up ruining (usually unwanted) formatting. This post focus on disabling visual editor to avoid unwanted formatting.

Step-By-Step Guide On Disabling Visual Editor In WordPress

Step1: Log-in into wp-admin panel.

Step2: Go to “users” (as shown below in screen-shot) and click on “Your Profile”

Step3: Now simply click on “Disable Visual Editor When Writing” and click on update button.

Step4: Congratulations you have successfully disable the visual editor in WordPress

Note: Disabling Visual editor is recommended only when you have basic knowledge of HTML

Do let us know you views in the comments section about disabling visual editor in WordPress??