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Need some help. A client fired her web developer...
Need some help. A client fired her web developer because he never completed the job.
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Feb 27, 2020
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Need some help. A client fired her web developer because he never completed the job.Need some help. A client fired her web developer because he never completed the job. I have access to her host but no access to wordpress dashboard. No idea what the username and password is. Is there an easy way to recover it? Has this happened to anybody? (sorry if the questions might seem silly)
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Feb 27, 2020
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Look into the WordPress installation section there should be an icon infront of your domain to login as admin
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Feb 27, 2020
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You can change the admin password via phpmyadmin.
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Feb 27, 2020
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PhpMyAdmin, edit the user table, replace the admin email with yours, then ask WP to reset the password.
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Feb 27, 2020
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@
clearcut
this
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Feb 27, 2020
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Feb 27, 2020
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What @
clearcut
said, although I normally just replace the password in the PHPMyAdmin dashboard, editing the user account directly. Set the encoding to MD5.
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Feb 27, 2020
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@
boule162
Martinez Definitely a viable option.
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Feb 27, 2020
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And this method could have been found by the OP with an easy peasy searching device called Google.
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Feb 27, 2020
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governance
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@
boule162
Martinez does WordPress seriously use MD5 for hashing passwords?
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Feb 27, 2020
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governance
Yeah. I'm not defending it.
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Feb 27, 2020
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Martinez Wow, I had no idea. That’s ridiculous
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Feb 27, 2020
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@
governance
A lot of people have said as much. I'm pretty sure at least some of the people working on WordPress Core have heard these criticisms directly. I don't know why they continue supporting it but I'm sure they could tell you a reason.
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Feb 27, 2020
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Thanks so much everybody! I’ll give it a try ☺️
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Feb 27, 2020
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hake1
if you are not able to do it. Let me know and I will help you out
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Feb 27, 2020
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Simple follow these steps Go to your host Open cpanel Go MySQL admin Find the right database Then expand it Search for a section or folder called users There you will see all the users Now find the admin Now open a new tab and Google search md5 hash generator Make a new password and generate md5 code Copy it Edit the user in cpanel In password paste the MD 5 has code Click save or go Go to the site /wp-admin Use the users email and new password Your in .
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Feb 27, 2020
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He beat me to post the answer, but these are the steps you need to follow to recover access to Wordpress. If you need a new developer, I have availability for new clients.
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