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I lost my wordpress admin password & can’t recover emails

2018-10-08

You need to access the MySQL database. If you use Cpanel, you can use phpmyadmin. 

  1. Go to wp-config.php in the root folder of your WordPress installation, and note the name of your database define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘XXXXX’);
  2. Go to phpmyadmin, click on the database that you already noted. 
  3. Click on wp_users
  4. Select the row and click on edit
  5. in user_pass, choose “MD5” in the drop-down menu “function”
  6. Type your new password in the field for user_pass and press the “go” button at the bottom of the field.

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