Posted 2 years ago #
OK, newbie here making an incredible mistake. I was working on a blog for a friend and didn't keep all of my login info. So, I requested a new password using what I think is my login id - it wouldn't accept any of my email addresses - and it nicely said to look for a link in my email. That was a couple of hours ago and nothing has appeared anywhere.
Is there anything I can do to rectify this and get back into the admin panel again?
I'm in a panic and hope there's an easy way to fix.
Posted 2 years ago #
You're in luck! (assuming you have full access to the site) http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
...if you have phpMyAdmin available, skip to this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin
Posted 2 years ago #
I'm still confused...
Your first link assumes that I can get into the admin panel, which is the problem to begin with since I can't seem to find the password or get it sent to my email.
not sure where I would find phpmyadmin.... is that something that would be on my godaddy account?
is that something that would be on my godaddy account?
Yes, phpMyAdmin is avail in your Godaddy account. This from Godaddy's help
# Log in to your Account Manager.
# Under the My Products section, select Hosting.
# Click Manage Account.
# Under the Databases heading, click MySQL.
# Click the Open Manager button.
# Enter your user name and password for your database.
Posted 2 years ago #
Sorry about that, shand. I didn't mean to confuse the issue. I think I may have phrased that poorly.
"assuming you have full access to the site"
I should have said, "assuming you have access to the account management features provided by the hosting service." Meaning access to the control panel or file manager. My bad.
Posted 2 years ago #
A few hours of frustration and some help from godaddy my solution was to uninstall and re-install and start all over. More problems than I thought. The only good thing was that I had not started adding content.
I just wanted to follow up and say thank you for your help. At least it pointed me in the right direction.
Thanks
Please read WordPress Backups and backup your files and your database routinely.
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