Title: Admin Account
Last modified: April 22, 2017

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# Admin Account

 *  [Mike Mcleland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikemcle/)
 * (@mikemcle)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-account-2/)
 * My admin account is not working. When I try to change the password it says it
   does not recognize the user. How can I create a new one or get it to work again?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-account-2/#post-9057392)
 * There are a number of methods for recovering/resetting your password in this 
   article
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password](https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password)

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## Tags

 * [admin user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-user/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-account-2/#post-9057392)
 * Status: not resolved

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