Title: get current password
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# get current password

 *  [lauras2009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauras2009/)
 * (@lauras2009)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-current-password/)
 * I don’t like the “reset password” functionality. I would prefer to just send 
   the user his/her current password.
 * I know it’s less secure, but from a user’s perspective, it’s a lot easier.
 * Can somebody tell me what to do or where to look to figure out how to do this?
 * Thanks,
    Laura S.

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 *  [benjiw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjiw/)
 * (@benjiw)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-current-password/#post-1268492)
 * Hi Laura,
 * Did you ever find a solution to this?
 *  Thread Starter [lauras2009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lauras2009/)
 * (@lauras2009)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-current-password/#post-1268494)
 * Well, sort of … although I’m just piecing it together from memory at this point.
   I’m using “Register Plus” plugin. When you go into Settings > Register Plus, 
   scroll down to “Custom User Email Notification” and check “Enable”. You get a
   bunch of new form fields. I think that the default response from the admin to
   the new user includes the password, which I believe is something like %password%.
   I never ended up using it because users got upset that their passwords were being
   emailed to them, so I took it out. So I’m not even 100% sure that it was there,
   or that that’s what it said … but at this point I think that’s the best I can
   do. Hope it helps!
 * Laura S.

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