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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)
Need some help.  A client fired her web developer because he never completed the job.

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+9 votes
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Look into the WordPress installation section there should be an icon infront of your domain to login as admin
+7 votes
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You can change the admin password via phpmyadmin.  
+2 votes
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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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@clearcut this
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+2 votes
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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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@boule162 Martinez Definitely a viable option.  
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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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@boule162 Martinez does WordPress seriously use MD5 for hashing passwords?  
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@governance Yeah. I'm not defending it.  
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@boule162 Martinez Wow, I had no idea. That’s ridiculous
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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.  
+3 votes
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Thanks so much everybody! I’ll give it a try ☺️
by (130 points)
@hake1 if you are not able to do it. Let me know and I will help you out
+2 votes
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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 .  
by (140 points)
@hake1 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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