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How To Find & Reset WordPress Username And Password In Cpanel
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Jan 24, 2024
In this tutorial video, the presenter guides viewers on how to find and reset a WordPress username and password using cPanel. The video likely covers step-by-step instructions on accessing the cPanel hosting environment and making the necessary adjustments to retrieve or reset login credentials for a WordPress website. Viewers can expect practical insights into navigating cPanel features, managing database entries, and resolving issues related to forgotten or misplaced WordPress login information. Whether you're a website owner, administrator, or someone troubleshooting login problems, this video aims to provide a helpful guide for efficiently handling WordPress username and password retrieval through cPanel.
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Hi everyone, welcome to Gidu Blogging and this video I will show you how you can reset your
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WordPress password from the database. So if you forgot your WordPress password and want to log into your WordPress dashboard, then
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you can easily change your password right from the database of your WordPress website
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So for this you need to log into your hosting panel. So whether you are using edge panel or C panel, you can easily change your WordPress password from there
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So here in this video I will show you the simple and easy way to do that
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So if you found this video helpful, then make sure to hit the like button
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And let's start the video. Alright, so let's check how you can change your WordPress password here
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So for this let me open this website here. So we are going to reset this password here
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So let me just go to the WP admin here and as you can see that we have logged into the
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WP admin of this website. So to change the password of this website we need to
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to log into the C panel here. So here in the blue host you will see this option advance here and here it is the C panel
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of the blue host. So if you are using edge panel of hosting or then the process will be same
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All you have to do is search for the PHP My admin
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So you have to find this option. So you can use the search tool to find this option in the database
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So let click on PHP My admin database here So as you can see that whenever you set a password in the database in WordPress It will save all your password in database so we can easily see the password in our database and easily
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change it from there. So here it is so this is the database of our website
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So there is two database because we have two website in Bluehost
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So this website is created later on. So here this is the database of this website so let's click on here
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Now here you will see different options. So here you have to search for users
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So like this. So let's click on user here and here it is
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So here you will see all the users and its password. So you can see that this is the user login
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So this is the username here. So let me copy the username first here and let me copy it to the noteped file here
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Now we need to reset the password of this website. So for this what I can do is here you can see that the password is encrypted here
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So if you directly use this password then the site will not open
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So for this we have to add it here first and here it is user password
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So we need to change this password here. So let me change this password to something like capital C, small T, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6 and let's add at the rate
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So let me copy the password from here and let me save it here Now here you need to do one thing otherwise this will not work So for this we have to encrypt this password first
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Otherwise it will not work here. So here you have to find this encryption method to MD5
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So make sure to set this encryption method otherwise this will not work
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So as we have set the encryption method scroll down here and here you will see this option
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save and then click on go. So it will encrypt our password in the database
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So as you can see that it is again encrypted here and we have successfully changed our WordPress
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password for this user. So let's try to log in with the new username and password
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So let me copy the username here and let me paste it here
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Now let's copy the password that you have just set in the database
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So let's copy it and let's paste it here. Now let's click on login
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And as you can see that we have successfully login to our WordPress dashboard
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So let's change the password one more time. So you can see if it is working properly or not
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So let's go to the database here. Let's again click on edit here and again I will remove this and I will paste it here and let's
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add a has sign here like this. Let copy it and let change it to MD5 Like this So as you can see that we have changed the password a little bit We have added the has value here
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So let's click and go here. So as you can see that we have updated our password
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So let me just go to log out here again. And let's click on log out here and let's copy our username here and here
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Let's paste it here and then copy the old password here. So let's copy it and let's paste it
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Now let's click on login and as you can see that it is saying the password is wrong
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That's because we have changed the password. So let me paste it here and let's add the hash value here like this and let's click on login
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As you can see that we have logged into our WordPress dashboard. So this is how you can easily change your WordPress password of all
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any user in WordPress. But make sure to set the encryption method to MD5, otherwise it will not work
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So I hope you have understand how you can reset your WordPress password from the database
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So this is the simple way you can easily recover any password from the username of your WordPress website
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So whether you want to delete a username from here, then you can also easily do that
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So if you found this video helpful, then make sure to hit the like button and if you can
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If you have any doubt regarding WordPress, then you can ask me in the comment section and
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I will see you in the next one. Bye bye