WordPress: Resetting your password the “hard” way.
November 19th, 2008
If you’ve forgetten your password to your WordPress install it has a nifty email-a-one-time-key-to-retrieve-password flow built in. Which for some reason never works on my box. (probably has to do with how I have Postfix setup doing 2ndary MXing) In the olden days the solution to this problem was to connect your database and UPDATE the user_pass field with an MD5 of your desired new password.
But now we’re living in the future, so things are more complicated. I still connect to my database, and manually UPDATE users set user_pass=$hashed where ID=1, but now I need this handy script to generate the hashed password for me. Hopefully the 3 other people in the world this is useful for will find this blog post.
(And now I might start blogging again)
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2 Comments
Yep. In fact, according to documentation on WordPress’s site (http://codex.wordpress.org/ResettingYourPassword), newer versions of MySQL can do the MD5 hashing for you.
Tim, that wiki is out of date. You used to be able to do it that, but not with the current version of WP.