you could try the emergency password reset script or one of the other solutions on this page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Using_the_Emergency_Password_Reset_Script
Hi, Mike,
Thank you so much for this. I got as far as uploading the file but it says, ” Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found.” I’ve double,triple checked it. (I’ve since deleted the file as you suggested).
Is there particular code I could chang in the file that I could then upload and avoid the browser problem? Then, I could just upload it??
it sounds like you didn’t upload it to the correct place. Did you put it at the same level as your wp-admin & wp-content directories? You might prefer to try the wp-config method outlined in the codex link instead
Hi, Mike,
I tried to upload to each of the files, wp-admin and wp-content as well as the file that contains both those files. When I click on the link through my browser, I get an apology from WordPress that the page can’t be found. Any other place to try to place it?
What’s the wp-config method? The link you sent was to this discussion.
And, thank you for all your help!
The link above should be going to the http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password page.
Read the instructions carefully – I never mentioned anything about uploading wp-admin or wp-content. Those directories already exist as standard in your WordPress installation and were mentioned only as a reference so you know where to upload the password reset script. In most cases should be at the same level as those.
Michael,
I got in and the way I did it was through the phpMyAdmin. we’re hosted on Yahoo and a very nice person there helped me to find “phpmyadmin”. This is a great tool and I highly recommend using it. The instructions from your link above are very good.
Phew!!
Thank you!
