Reset WordPress password in the Host panel

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    This article is a step by step on how to change your website password.

    1. Once logged in to the host panel here, navigate to database.
    db_screen (2)

    2. After you have browsed the database, phpMyAdmin will be launched. (1) Expand the database, see image below.
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    3. Once the database is expanded, (1)select the wp-users table, (2) edit the user for which you would like to have the password changed (WordPress admin user).
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    4. Once you have clicked to edit a user, you will be able to perform the password reset. Make sure that in the user_pass row(1) you select the function MD5, and the value will be your new password.

    Password_reset

    Once that is done, click on Go to persist the data.
    Congratulations you have changed your WordPress site password.

     

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