Title: forgot password
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# forgot password

 *  [elannak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elannak/)
 * (@elannak)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-3/)
 * Thursday I went into to my new blog and changed the password. I did not write
   it down and now I can’t remember it. I have tried everything that I can think
   of that I would use. my username and e-mail are not working either. I thought
   that you had to go into phpAdmin to change the username. I am essentially locked
   out of my blog. Do I have to start over of is there another way to get in???
 * HELP

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-3/#post-562938)
 * _I thought that you had to go into phpAdmin to change the username. _
 * You thought right, and being locked out of your blog wont affect that.
 * Follow one one of these tutes, and you’ll be fine:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password](http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password)
 * OR
 * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/)
 * hth
 *  [Andy Potanin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andypotanin/)
 * (@andypotanin)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-3/#post-563129)
 * if you forgot your password but have access to phpmyadmin, here’s what you can
   do:
 * go here [http://www.johnmaguire.us/tools/hashcalc/](http://www.johnmaguire.us/tools/hashcalc/)
   and type in a new password (this should be a temporary one)
    then you will get
   a list of hashed passwords on next page, copy and paste the MD5 since thats what
   wordpress uses. Example: the word ‘password’ would look like this: 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
 * Then open up phpmyadmin, go to user table, find “admin” and copy and paste the
   hash into the password field.
 * Then login with the word you hashed, ‘password’ in my case.

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Andy Potanin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andypotanin/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forgot-password-3/#post-563129)
 * Status: not resolved

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