Saturday, February 16, 2013

WAMP SERVER LOCAL HOST HOW TO RESET PASSWORD

  1. Start phpmyadmin in your web browser, it should be something like http://localhost/phpmyadmin, login to it.
  2. In left hand side of your phpmyadmin welcome window, you will be having all the database, click on your WordPress database.
  3. It will list all your wordpress tables, then you will find a table name ‘wp_users’, this is the one which stores all the user info. Click to browse this table.
  4. Then it will list all the entries of ‘wp_users’ table. Now click and edit user named ‘admin’.
  5. There is a field called ‘user_pass’, it has your password, but you see this is in encrypted format, WordPress uses MD5 encryption algorithm function.
  6. Now change the column ‘Value‘ of user_pass filed with your desired password, Note : select the function MD5 in ‘Function‘ column.

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