I Heart Yahoo

Not really, i’m blogging aren’t i? But so many people have that problem, they setup WP on their own domain and forget what their password was, they sometimes forget what email address they signed up with, and if that’s gone, you’re blog is pretty much done for, until now.

I was reading a regular forum I lurk at, BlackHat Forum at shoutingzone.com and came across an amazingly useful topic.

Some member lost his password and no longer had access to his email address, so this guy called Duane, who seems to be some sort of hardcore coder replied, this was the reply to the I lost my wordpres password topic;

I was about to head to bed, lucky I saw your topic.

It’s not at all hard so don’t worry about it. You’ll be blogging again in 5minutes.

First thing you have to do is go to this site http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/Base64Encode/Default.aspx and enter the new password you want, encode it and when that’s done, scroll down and copy the base64 code, it will look something like this dGhpc2lzeW91cnBhc3N3b3Jk (that’s the encoding for thisisyourpassword)

Save that somewhere safe, and remember what the original password was.

Now log into your cpanel, go to phpmyadmin.
Select the DB that contains your blog in it, (if you don’t remember then find the name in you config.php file) and select that.

Select wp_user and then Browse. Now Edit the admin username, simply paste the password you encoded in the field where it says user_pass >> varchar(64) There you’ll find some random letters and numbers, like I said, replace those with the random letters and numbers we got after encoding our password before.
Select Go to the bottom right and you’re done. go to your admin login page for your blog, type in admin as the username and your new password, this is not the numbers and letters but what you initially typed in as a password before encoding it.

That’s it, you’re in. Feel free to change the email address in your admin profile.

This is great, now I don’t have to worry about remembering my passwords for the blogs I have! haha I can forget them at any time and then just go change them when I want to login! Very useful tips from this coder Duane, Kudos to him! Kudos to shoutingzone.com !