I usually stress on my messenger and online friends about keeping your password safe and in some place where you can not allow people to peep in to check what it is. Having very easy password is not advised, and similarly having a very hard and forgettable password is always not good as you can also forget the password sometimes.

In a self-hosted wordpress blog, there is no option where you can get your new password in email if you forget it. That option would be seen in wordpress.com free hosted blog admin panels. If its a self hosted blog, you just have to work something on the cpanel backend in the phpmyadmin section. That is where you can enter a new hash key and reset your password.

This video provides a tutorial on how to recover the lost or forgotten admin password using phpmyadmin. It’s a very easy process and takes not more than 2 minutes to do everything. It was given by Mike from watchingthenet.com

Note : Be careful always when playing with the cpanel and database sections and always backup your database before doing anything with it.

Short explanation -

• Open phpmyadmin
• Open the database of your blog
• In that, go to wp users section, and open user_pass and edit it.
• You will see a MD5 Hash in the password box. Open a MD5 encryption website like md5encryption.com
• Enter a desired password in that site and it will give you a MD5 Hash which you have to replace with the Hash of your phpmyadmin.
• This will just replace the password with your desired new one.