When cluelessness strikes - how to recover your forgotten admin password in Wordpress
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My mom is always fond of telling me, if anything is going to happen to anyone, it generally happens to my daughter.
My oh my, was she ever right. 
For the past few weeks, I’ve been in a frenzy of work, creating new wordpress blogs, tying up loose ends, and generally wreaking havoc and mayhem in my sanity. Now, this by itself isn’t really news (the cutting edge of parallel processing has been my home ever since I was a sysadmin at AT&T), but it DOES lend itself to rather unique, ahem, opportunities for undying nail-biting shirt-rending foot kicking fist punching bouts of lovely stress.
Take, for example, the past 10 minutes. Earlier this week, I had set up posting Owlbert updates from Owlbert.com to Virtual-coach.com . And I moved Barbaraling.com to new servers, adding a wordpress blog there as well! Plus, I’ve been tweaking the blogs/databases at various other sites as well.
Now, I have specific passwords I use for specific sites. I had thought I changed BarbaraLing.com from the default password and when I decided to login, typed what I believed was correct.
HA HA, chortled my beloved domain name! The password no workie! It was then I realized I had failed to update it…but even more un-intelligently, had ticked off ‘Remember my (INCORRECT) password‘ in my browser window to boot!
DOES THE EXCITEMENT NEVER END??????
End result? A wordpress blog with no way to access it. Oh, sure, I tried sending the password to myself, and even now, I’m certain that after it finishes site-seeing on the Internet, I’ll eventually receive the information.
Sigh. Only me. Well, probably not ONLY me, but hey - it’s character building!
Anywhos, I searched about online for ways to recover the password and discovered:
How to recover from lost WordPress admin password
It was a true lifesaver! I followed the instructions step-by-step and they were *perfect*. Lots of good graphics support the tutorial; it was extremly easy to understand and implement.
So! If you’re ever a rebel without a clue, and can’t get into your WP admin dashboard, visit the above link and give that a go. It’s truly a lifesaver.
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
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3 Comments, Comment or Ping
c0ldfire
Hello Barbara,
I’m glad that you like my tutorial so much and that it did help you
and thank you for posting a link to it on your site.
Nice blog you have too, keep up the good work.
Thank you
Kind Regards,
anythingtips.com webmaster
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Mar 10th, 2008
Owlbert
My pleasure! It’s a great tutorial you have on your site.
Best wishes,
Barbara
Mar 10th, 2008
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