Comments on: Reset a WordPress Password from phpMyAdmin

By: Shiv

Shiv — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:59:37 +0000

Really Useful post for me, tried and did it successfully.

By: Prasanna Kumar

Prasanna Kumar — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:13:31 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

By: crivion

crivion — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:09:12 +0000

Something new for me is that mysql/phpmyadmin knows how to md5()
I was using various internet tools to encrypt words into md5 has untill now

By: Nero

Nero — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:12:24 +0000

Ah sorry i forgot the code tag


  require_once('wp-load.php');
  $wpdb->query("UPDATE ".$table_prefix."users SET user_pass = '".wp_hash_password($_REQUEST["new_pw"])."' WHERE user_login = '".$_REQUEST["u_name"]."'");

By: Nero

Nero — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:38:13 +0000

Hi,

hm i change the pw with this litel code it works just fine.

Create a new php file with the following code in your wp root.
#########
query(“UPDATE “.$table_prefix.”users SET user_pass = ‘”.wp_hash_password($_REQUEST["new_pw"]).”‘ WHERE user_login = ‘”.$_REQUEST["u_name"].”‘”);
?>
#########

Now you only need to do a request to this file with a browser url like this.

http://YourDomain/wordpress/newpw.php?new_pw=YourPassword&u_name=YourUser

But delete the file after your done ^_^

Sorry for my bad english i tried my best >_<

By: 重设WordPress密码 « Hello Word

重设WordPress密码 « Hello Word — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:07:20 +0000

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By: Antonella

Antonella — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:19:58 +0000

Thanks! This page saved me. I tried to figure the password reset using phpMyAdmin from from the help page on the Wordpress portal, but I think it’s missing a step, or it wasn’t that clear. With your instructions, I was able to change my password in 1 minute!

By: Stotti

Stotti — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:16:27 +0000

Hi Alex,

you’re absolutely right. The hashing algorithm implemented in Wordpress is using a salt. So each hash differs from the other – even if the original message is the same. Coherent my Wordpress password generator (http://scriptserver.mainframe8.com/wordpress_password_hasher.php) is generating a different password hash each turn. Don’t worry, every generated hash is valid for your password.
If you have further questions i’ll be happy to answer them. But please ask them over at my blog (http://www.stottmeister.com/blog/2009/06/30/new-wordpress-password-hasher-tool/) where i may recognize it faster. I’ve seen your comment here just by coincidence. Thank you!

Best regards
- Stotti

By: Alex Parshikov

Alex Parshikov — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:45:05 +0000

Stotti,

Your effort is appreciated but the method doesn’t work. Could it be that the password is salted somehow? I noticed that your generator gives a different hash from the one I see in my testing installation – for the same password string. That’s what lead me to think of the salt issue.

My test installation does have modified strings on following lines:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);

Is that the issue?

Thanks.
- Alex

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:45:30 +0000

Thank You for posting this! This helped!

By: Geeknoob’s Small Spot » Wordpress + WAMP

Geeknoob’s Small Spot » Wordpress + WAMP — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:16:49 +0000

[...] own permalink URL) and eventually uploaded to our server. I imported to the DB (via PHPMyAdmin), reset the WP admin password, and copied the files over. Well, low and behold, it only worked in the “Default” [...]

By: stotti.blog()

stotti.blog() — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:45:30 +0000

New Wordpress password hasher tool…

This time just a quick post as I am in a hurry. Ever wondered how to change your Wordpress password in case you have forgotten it? In early versions Wordpress used the MD5 hashing algorithm to “encrypt” the passwords of a user. Nowadays Wor…