{"id":18991123,"date":"2026-08-12T04:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/change-password-for-smtp-password\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T04:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:31:58","slug":"change-password-for-smtp-password","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/change-password-for-smtp-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Change password for SMTP Password"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My emails are not working on my wordpress website and I need to change my password. But its greyed out and I can&#8217;t change it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It listed this information, but it&#8217;s all Greek to me (I&#8217;m Australian):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The value of this field was set using a constant&nbsp;<code>WPMS_SMTP_PASS<\/code>&nbsp;most likely inside&nbsp;<code>wp-config.php<\/code>&nbsp;of your WordPress installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To change the password you need to change the value of the constant there:&nbsp;<code>define( 'WPMS_SMTP_PASS', 'your_old_password' );<\/code><br \/>If you want to disable the use of constants, find in&nbsp;<code>wp-config.php<\/code>&nbsp;file the constant&nbsp;<code>WPMS_ON<\/code>&nbsp;and turn if off:define( &#8216;WPMS_ON&#8217;, false );<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All the defined constants will stop working and you will be able to change all the values on this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18991123","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18991123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18991123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18991123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}