How To Access WordPress Dashboard If You Forget Password

You have setup a beautiful website and suddenly you cannot login to your dashboard due to one reason or another. Your heart jumps and you immediately feel like using the toilet or washroom. You have nothing to worry about! You can easily change your password in the CPanel and regain access to your wordpress dashboard. Below are the steps to changing your password in CPanel.

1. Log into your CPanel.
2. Scroll to down to ‘Databases’.
3. Click ‘phpMyadmin’ to open the folder.
4. Click ‘Databases’ on the top left of the window that opens.
5. Click your website’s database to open it. If you don’t know your database, ask your host provider.
6. Scroll to ‘wp_users’.
7. Click ‘Edit’ on the left of the row. Notice that the existing username and encrypted password are there in the row under ‘user_login’ and ‘user_pass’, respectively.
8. Scroll down to see the field where the encrypted password can be changed.
9. For safety reasons, select and copy the existing encrypted password and store it safely. Just in case.
10. Enter a new password at the field ‘user_pass’ to replace the existing password. Be sure to store this new password safely.
11. In the same row of the ‘user_pass’, select ‘MD5’ from the drop down in front of ‘varchar(255).
12. Scroll down and click the ‘Go’ button.
13. If you are successful and your entries are saved, you can now go to your wp-admin and login with the new password.
14. You are done.
15. Note that the purpose of the selected MD5 is to encrypt the new password.