Title: Lost WordPress Account
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Lost WordPress Account

 *  [CreativeBillieJean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativebilliejean/)
 * (@creativebilliejean)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-wordpress-account/)
 * Hi, please help!
 * To make a long story short – I originally was working off of WAMP. It didn’t 
   play nice with uploading to Godaddy’s servers. I tried to “start over” by deleting
   WAMP, the local host. Not a good idea. Now I can’t get into my WordPress account.
   It giving me an error that my account doesn’t exist.
 * I tried to reinstall WAMP. That didn’t help. I assume my account is pointing 
   to WAMP and it doesn’t know how to go.
 * At this point, I just need in my WordPress account to point it away from WAMP
   and to another local host. How do I get into my account?
 * Ready to cry,
    Bj

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 *  [Craig Ralston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craig-ralston/)
 * (@craig-ralston)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-wordpress-account/#post-6109429)
 * Can you be more specific on what you mean by your account?
 * WordPress users are tied to the database, in the *prefix*_users table. So if 
   you are referring to your user account, you can check the database or even create
   a new user right there.
 * [http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-an-admin-user-to-the-wordpress-database-via-mysql/](http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-an-admin-user-to-the-wordpress-database-via-mysql/)
 *  [wslade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wslade/)
 * (@wslade)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-wordpress-account/#post-6109430)
 * You might get more and better answers if your post your question at: [https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/localhost-installs)
 *  Thread Starter [CreativeBillieJean](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativebilliejean/)
 * (@creativebilliejean)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-wordpress-account/#post-6109473)
 * I’m a bit new here…let me try to explain this better.
 * I started my WP site on MAMP (not WAMP as above) and developed the site off of
   my computer as the local host. MAMP doesn’t play nicely with GoDaddy’s servers,
   they told me to “delete” it and start over. I did. Bad advice.
 * At this point, when I tried to log-in at “localhost/…/wp-admin” (something to
   that effect), it would give me an invalid user where as it originally would take
   me to my Dashboard. So I reinstalled MAMP. I was able to “remap” the files and
   log back in. I lost everything.
 * So I started over and rebuild a “smaller” site to test it. When I changed the
   WP setting URL (from localhost to the domain), it automatically logged me out.
   Now when I try to log back into WP, it says I’m an invalid user again.
 * I don’t mind starting over, but I want to keep my WordPress user name. Is there
   a way I could upload WP to GoDaddy and start from there…leaving MAMP out of the
   picture. Seems to cause more issues than needed…would I be able to keep my WordPress
   user name. It’s unique.
 * Thanks so much for your help! Glad to know someone is out there that can point
   me in the right directly…
 * Bj
 *  [wslade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wslade/)
 * (@wslade)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-wordpress-account/#post-6109474)
 * Why don’t you use godaddy’s one button install and choose the user name of your
   choice.

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## Tags

 * [doesn't exist](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/doesnt-exist/)
 * [godaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/godaddy/)
 * [WAMP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wamp/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [wslade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wslade/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-wordpress-account/#post-6109474)
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