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eric hughes
eric hughes
12,345 Points
Posted by eric hughes
eric hughes
12,345 Points

Wordpress password...........

I have tried resetting my password through cpanel > phpadmin settings atleast 5 times, I tried changing the script inside php.functions file for my theme and uploading it through FTP still doesnt work. I tried the email rest link so many times that I got kicked out for 24 hours. please help I do not know what else to do, i dont want to log in through command line and mess something up. I did make a backup through cpanel and have it stored locally on my computer but now i cannot edit anything, this is all because I wanted to make a child theme.... which I did but I cannot login into my wp-admin area.

6 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Eric,

Have you tried all of these?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password

Thanks

-Rich

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points
Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Eric,

Apologies if you meant you had already tried this but just in case you haven't this may help:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-reset-a-wordpress-password-from-phpmyadmin/

It will need to be stored as an MD5 Hash so you won't be able to just enter a plain text password.

Hope this helps in some way.

-Rich

eric hughes
eric hughes
12,345 Points
eric hughes
eric hughes
12,345 Points

ya i typed in my password and chose md5, what other things can i do?

eric hughes
eric hughes
12,345 Points
eric hughes
eric hughes
12,345 Points

i did read over the codex, ive done all of them except the sql command line, emergency script. ive been kicked out for 24hrs so im gunna come back to it tomorrow. was super frustrating though. thank you so much for your feedback

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

No problem, hope you get it sorted!

-Rich

eric hughes
eric hughes
12,345 Points
eric hughes
eric hughes
12,345 Points

what i wanna know is, normally i start my passwords with a #, thats just a convention that I made up. in wordpress, it is true that its only numbers and letters? and maybe when i was resetting it that when i would type my password the hash avoided the # at the beginning?

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Eric,

I'm sure you can use special characters too. This indicates they can be used (including #):

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_generate_password

Hope that helps

-Rich