Title: How to find database
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# How to find database

 *  [gechmas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gechmas/)
 * (@gechmas)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-find-database/)
 * A few hours ago I posted a note asking for advice on how to find my username 
   which I have apparently forgotten. I was told to look it up in the database. 
   I do not know how or where to find the database. Could someone please help me?

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-find-database/#post-5189276)
 * Go to your phpMyAdmin-interface.
    In your wordpress db you should find the table
   wp_users. There you can find the usernames and passwords. However, the pw’s are
   MD5-coded…
 *  [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * (@2ninerniner2)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-find-database/#post-5189284)
 * [@gechmas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gechmas/)
    Note: please do not
   make duplicate posts 🙂
 * Where is your site hosted? Is it with a hosting company such as GoDaddy, HostGator,
   BlueHost, etc. or is this a local installation on your own computer using a local
   web server such as XAMPP, WAMP, MAMP, etc.
 * All of the ones mentioned above have, as Tara pointed out, a database administration
   tool called phpMyAdmin. The various hosts will have access to this in their hosting
   control panel somewhere (also note that `cPanel` is a brand name of a popular
   hosting control panel).
 * Once you are in phpMyAdmin, find the database for your WP site in the left side
   bar and expand it if it isn’t already. You will see a list of the tables. Click
   on the wp_users one. In the content area, if it isn’t selected, click the Browse
   tab. There you will see the user name in the user_login column.

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## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [find](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/find/)
 * [where](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/where/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-find-database/#post-5189284)
 * Status: not resolved

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