2 Ways to Reset Your WordPress Password

Last modified: January 13, 2020

This shouldn’t happen to you very much (or at all), but sometimes we forget to write our password down / get hacked / change our password and forget it, etc. etc. Usually we could just click the “Forgot password” link on the login page and be done in 2 minutes. However, what if your server is having an issue sending emails? Or what if you are developing locally and can’t use the email functionality? Well, luckily for you there are 2 very easy fixes to this annoying issue.

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Reset your Password in phpMyAdmin

Open your database in phpMyAdmin
Go to the wp_users table
Click edit
Choose MD5 in the function column
Switch the current md5 password into something simple (can be changed in the admin)
Go to your login page and login with the new password
Done!

Add a New User Through functions.php

This option doesn’t even require meddling with the database. Head over to functions.php and paste the following at the end of it.

function add_admin_account(){
  $user = 'newadmin';
  $pass = '123456';
  $email = '[email protected]';
  if ( !username_exists( $user )  && !email_exists( $email ) ) {
    $user_id = wp_create_user( $user, $pass, $email );
    $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
    $user->set_role( 'administrator' );
  } }
add_action('init','add_admin_account');