I have a question about Wordpress Admin Account

xarzu · #1 (**permalink**) 03-20-2011, 02:53 AM

It seems like I have lost my admin password to my wordpress blog. I tryed to send a reset password message but I did not get any email notification. I kind of remember that the admin account in wordpress is a special case and that you cannot loose the password for that account. Is this right? Does this mean I will have to rebuild my wordpress from the ground up? I mean, will I have to reinstall everything?

**snakeair** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-20-2011, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by xarzu

It seems like I have lost my admin password to my wordpress blog. I tryed to send a reset password message but I did not get any email notification. I kind of remember that the admin account in wordpress is a special case and that you cannot loose the password for that account. Is this right? Does this mean I will have to rebuild my wordpress from the ground up? I mean, will I have to reinstall everything?

There is a easy way to change the password if you have access to your CPanel account.

Scroll down to the section in this blog post called "Manually Change Your Password Settings" and you can do this by editing your database file. I did this to change my username for my admin account.

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/02...ress-password/

linkbuildr · #3 (**permalink**) 03-29-2011, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xarzu

It seems like I have lost my admin password to my wordpress blog. I tryed to send a reset password message but I did not get any email notification. I kind of remember that the admin account in wordpress is a special case and that you cannot loose the password for that account. Is this right? Does this mean I will have to rebuild my wordpress from the ground up? I mean, will I have to reinstall everything?

Hopefully not. If you can still access your CPanel, there should be a back-door to reset your WordPress password from there.