Title: Remove "Better Passwords" function in WP
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Remove "Better Passwords" function in WP

 *  [budskab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budskab/)
 * (@budskab)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-better-passwords-function-in-wp/)
 * Hi
 * I have site with multiple users, and they aren’t as excited about the “Better
   password” feature of WordPress 4.3 as I am.
 * (This is a feature where WP suggests a very strong password on sign-up and resetting
   password)
 * As an admin I think strong passwords are great. But users on this particular 
   site has acces to almost nothing and having such a strong password seems like
   a major overkill.
 * Trouble is that they can’t remember the strong passwords (and can’t seem to figure,
   that they are able to write something else than the suggested password) and ends
   up resetting all the time. And therefore starts complaining quite a bit.
 * I always enforce strong passwords (via another plugin) for Admins and Editors,
   who has actual permissions on the site. But I would very much like to disable
   this suggest feature, since it is causing my users quite some trobule.
 * Anyone know how to do this?

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 *  [Bloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloke/)
 * (@bloke)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-better-passwords-function-in-wp/#post-6655170)
 * All they have to do is click “confirm use of weak password”
 *  [codemovement.pk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codemovementpk/)
 * (@codemovementpk)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-better-passwords-function-in-wp/#post-6655173)
 * Hi,
 * I think you have to wait for the later release of this plugin 🙂
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-password-strength/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-password-strength/)
 * here is what the plugin writer says:
    “For now, all users have the same password
   strength requirements, but a later release will allow administrators to select
   different strength requirements for different roles.”
 *  Thread Starter [budskab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budskab/)
 * (@budskab)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-better-passwords-function-in-wp/#post-6655183)
 * Bloke: They can overwrite the suggest, but the average user don’t know that. 
   SO they think, that they are forced to use the strong password. That’s why I 
   wanna remove the suggested password prepopulated in the “new password” field.
 * CodeMovement:
    I already have enforced strong passwords for some users. And these
   users can choose whatever they want. Only requirement is length.
 * So:
 * I don’t need to change the password strength requirements. These are all good.
 * I need to disable the new function in which WordPress automatically suggests 
   a strong password when a user is changing his/hers password.
 *  Thread Starter [budskab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budskab/)
 * (@budskab)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-better-passwords-function-in-wp/#post-6655367)
 * Bump
 * I still haven’t found any solution to this.
 * Anyone able to help?
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-better-passwords-function-in-wp/#post-6655368)
 * > They can overwrite the suggest, but the average user don’t know that. SO they
   > think, that they are forced to use the strong password.
   >  … I still haven’t 
   > found any solution to this.
 * Education? Have you tried telling them what to do if they want to use a crappy
   password?
 * I would suggest using password managers and educating your users before I would
   ever consider using weaker security. If a user is actually unable to use strong
   passwords, then I would not let them have a log in to my systems.
 * I mean, it’s certainly possible to write a plugin to weaken your security, but
   why on earth would you actually want to do that?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-better-passwords-function-in-wp/#post-6655368)
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