Hi guys
Today we’re going to see how you can reset your WordPress password.
Now Let’s say you have a website, which is built using WordPress
And you have forgotten or lost your admin password.
Now how do you reset your password?
To reset your WordPress password
There are 3 ways.
The 1st way is by ‘using the built-in Wordpress password reset option’
So to reset our password, first let’s go to our Wordpress site.
Now this is the site which I built on WordPress
Now, let’s go to our login page by typing ‘/login' here
Now if you press enter,
you will reach this page.
So now to reset your password
All you have to do is click ‘lost your password’
And it will take you to this page
Where it will ask you to enter your email address.
So enter the email address which you used while creating
your WordPress website.
And click ‘get new password’
As soon as you click it
You will receive an email to your inbox.
So let’s go to our inbox
And here you can see that we have got a mail to reset our password.
Now if you didn’t get this mail, make sure you also check the spam folder.
Now Let’s open this mail
So to set a new password to your site
Just click this link
And it will take you to this page
here you need to enter a new password for your website.
I’m going to enter a new password
And then click ‘reset password’.
So now we have successfully reset our password.
So Let’s try logging in to our website, with the new password.
let’s click ‘login’ here
now enter your username and then the new password
And click ‘login’
Now as you can see, we have successfully logged in to our website.
So this is how you can set a new password, for your WordPress site.
Now, what if you dont remember the email address which you used
while creating your website?
How do you reset your password?
Next, let’s go to the second method Which is to ‘reset the
password from your hosting account’
Now there are 2 types of hosting you can have for your WordPress site.
The 1st one is a managed WordPress hosting.
And the other one is called Cpanel hosting, which comes with
a Cpanel interface like this.
First, we’re going to see how you can reset your password on
"A managed WordPress hosting platform”.
So to set a new WordPress password on this hosting,
you need to first login to your hosting account
Since I have hosted my website on GoDaddy
I’m going to reset my password from there
Let’s go to Godaddy.com
And click ‘sign in’
And it will take you to this page. Now click here
And click ‘hosting and Wordpress’.
Now here you will see our WordPress site which is hosted here.
So to set our new password for WordPress Click here
And then click ‘wp-admin’
And as you can see, we have logged in to our dashboard
Now to reset the password
Go to ‘users’
And click ‘your profile’
Now here you can see your WordPress username,
To reset the password for this user, scroll down and click ‘generate password’
Now as soon as you click it,
Wordpress will generate a password for you,
Now to change this password, just delete it
and then enter a new one
Once you have entered the password
To save it, click ‘update’
So now we have successfully set a new password for our website.
Now let’s try logging in with our new password
So let’s go here and then click ‘log out’
And now we’re back on our login page
Now if we enter the username and then enter the new password which we created
And click ‘login’
you can see that, we have now successfully logged in to our WordPress dashboard.
So this is how you can reset your WordPress password when you have a managed
WordPress hosting without Cpanel.
Next, let’s look at the 2nd type of hosting you can have which is
called a ‘Cpanel hosting’, which comes with an interface like this.
Now to reset your WordPress password using the Cpanel,
First, go to your website address
And then type ‘slash Cpanel’
now it will take you to this page,
which is the cPanel login page
Now enter the username and password of your cPanel account
Now lets click 'Login'
And you will get the cpanel where you can control your hosting account.
Now to reset your password,
search for 'phpMyAdmin' here
And you will get this option
To reset your password, just click it,
and it will take you to this page.
Now here, click the plus icon
and here you will see an option called 'users'
So lets click that
Now here, you will find all the user names which are available on your site.
Now to change the password for any user, just click ‘edit’
And here you will be able to change the password for this username.
So to change the password,
Just select this text
and then enter a new password here.
Once you have entered the password
To secure your password, make sure you click here
and select ‘md5’
Now to save the new password, just click ‘go’
And the new password will be saved!
So now we have successfully reset the password for our site
Let’s try logging into WordPress with the new password
So Let’s go to our site
And then type /login
Now enter enter the username and the new password that we just created
And click ‘login’
you can see that!, we have successfully logged in to our WordPress website!
So now you know how you can reset your WordPress password, in 3 different ways.
That’s it guys
This is how you can reset your WordPress password.
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