• Resolved murph110

    (@murph110)


    So I’ve forgotten my password apparently. When I use my username from the ‘forgot password’ page I am given a message that the link to reset has been sent. It never comes… and have checked all spam/junk folders.
    When I try using my email address from ‘forgot password’ page, I am told that the email address doesn’t exist for them… and I’ve never changed it…

    Any ideas? Very frustrated…

    Thank you!

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    I am given a message that the link to reset has been sent. It never comes.

    – Ask your hosting provider what’s going on (e.g., if any of their SMTP filtering rules have changed recently; If for some reason your notification emails have been simply queued. etc.)
    – Also ask them if you need to setup SMTP. If you do, then you can use a plugin for it, for example: https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/

    When I try using my email address from ‘forgot password’ page, I am told that the email address doesn’t exist for them… and I’ve never changed it…

    – You can check your email address in the dashboard.
    – Also, you can check the users’s Email in the database; look closer at the key/value pairs inside the wp_usermeta table.

    Thread Starter murph110

    (@murph110)

    OK… went to wordpress.com dashboard… checked email address, and went to “security” and changed password.

    Went to my blog site, clicked “login” to get to admin panel sign-in… and same issues…..

    …and not sure how to get to wp_usermeta table as the computer it resided on crashed and burned……..

    Any other thoughts? Thank you!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Is this a wordpress.com site or a self-hosted WordPress install?

    Thread Starter murph110

    (@murph110)

    self-hosted wordpress install

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    So why were you checking your details at wordpress.com?

    Thread Starter murph110

    (@murph110)

    It’s the only dashboard I’ve been able to access….

    Thread Starter murph110

    (@murph110)

    Update… i’m in… and feeling stupid. Not sure when it was changed, but my password reset emails were going to my site@ which I’ve accessed and voila!
    Thanks for taking the time to help!

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad to know it 🙂

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