Can't access admin; why doesn't 'Forgot Password?' come up

  • caorg

    (@caorg)


    13 years ago

    Hello,

    I can’t access admin because it keeps saying that the password is wrong.

    I think – but am not sure – that I am using the right password in any case!

    Why doesn’t it throw up ‘Forgot Password?’ so that my password can be emailed to me? I think it did before?

    It is also possible that I changed my username from the ‘admin’ default – I honestly can’t remember!

    How can I fix this? I cannot do anything to my website because of this.

    I have asked this before but the instructions given were too compicated for me…….the things didn’t look the same as the instructions said they would look.

    Why can’t I just be emailed my username and password??
    Surely that is the simplest of solutions – especialy for laymen like me.

    Although I have never had a problem before, I am really thinking of changing from WordPress because of this. It doesn’t give me any confidence.

    Thank God this website isn’t for business……I would be seriously losing money all the time I can’t get access.

    I will be setting up a business website soon and this is really putting me off using WordPress again.

    Please, please help me to get access.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    13 years ago

    On the normal wp-login.php screen, there is a “Lost your password?” link at the bottom. Click it.

    Thread Starter caorg

    (@caorg)

    13 years ago

    But how do I get the normal login screen you refer to?

    The only log in screen I can find is “codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Administration_Panels” and that has no lost password button.

    I have just tried to get some other type of screen up and came up with one from wordpress.com.

    But that’s entirely different to .org isnt it?

    Anyway, that was “dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fdashboard.wordpress.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1”

    When I tried to put in my username, it told me no such username exists.

    So then, I was invited to put in my email address – it told me there is no such email address registered on their system.

    So what do I do?

    How do I get the screen you spoke of?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    12 years, 12 months ago

    Well, that does depend on what exactly it is that you’re talking about.

    Are you talking about logging in here on the support forums? That would be http://wordpress.com/support/bb-login.php

    Are you talking about logging into a WordPress.com blog? That would be http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-login.php

    Are you talking about your own blog? That would be http://yourblog.com/whatever/wp-login.php

    Your blog is your own, it’s not connected to us. You can’t log into your blog from here.

    Knut Sparhell

    (@knutsp)

    12 years, 12 months ago

    Simply add wp-login.php to your blog home page URL, you will see the normal login page, and there IS a link to forgot password.

    You may also access this password function directly by adding wp-login.php?action=lostpassword to your home URL (http://example.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword).

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