Truth, Computing and Fail

For those of you on a free hosting and managing their own wordpress installation, you must be lacking mail server support.Now suppose you lose your login password, the one that WordPress supplies you after the installation, what do you do? You can’t reset your password through e-mail as you don’t have a SMTP server configured for you. No need to panic. However basic your plan maybe, you must have phpMyAdmin installed on the server. Fire it up from the cpanel (depends on the hosting provider) and browse the wordpress database (oni_wordpress in my case). Now browse the wp_users table by clicking on the browse icon.

Now, edit the given entry by clicking on the pen icon and then you see a few fields. See the user_pass field? Thats where the MD5 hashed password is stored. To put in your new password, just type the plaintext password in value and from the Function dropdown list, choose MD5 and then click on Go. Note that you can change your login name from here also.