Title: Custom Forget Password Function
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Forget Password Function

 *  Resolved [estern23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estern23/)
 * (@estern23)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-forget-password-function/)
 * I am trying to create a custom function to reset a WP password from a forgot 
   your password form, for a custom login page.
 * I have a custom login working but i want to allow users that have forgotten their
   password to get it reset. Just like how the wp-login.php functionality works.
   But i dont want the user to use wp-login.php since it doesn’t look like the rest
   of my site.
 * I am aware of things like “Theme My Login” and other plugins that have this function,
   but dont want to use a plugin. I am looking for a simplified function. The plugins
   are very bloated with features and i just need this one.
 * I know that i can’t just grab the passwords from the wp db since they have an
   md5 encryption on them and send them to the user via wp_mail().
 * Solution that i am looking for: User enters a username or email address and then
   submits that form. Then that it submits the data to itself for processing. Then
   that page collects the data and then calls a function to set that user, create
   a new password with the wp_generate_password, update the password with the new
   password and email them with wp_mail the new password.
 * Any thoughts on how to achieve this?
 * Thanks

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