How to Hack into WordPress When You've Lost Your Password
You'll probably need to be at least an advanced beginner with self-installed WordPress installations to do this.
The situation:
You can't get into a WordPress installation, you don't have a working e-mail address so you can't reset your password.
However, you can getinto the mySQL database.
The Solution:
1) Log into your cPanel
2) Go to PHPMyAdmin
3) Open the database which connects to your website
4) Find the table wp_users
5) Find any user identity there and change the e-mail address in the e-mail column to an e-mail address you can access (Please excuse my sloppy pink arrow in the image below) Make a point to remember what is in the user_login column in that same row. Will come in handy later
6) Go back to the admin panel www.yourwebsiteaddress.com/wp-admin
7) Now choose lost password and enter the e-mail address you used in step 5
8)Go to your e-mail to reset the password
9) Now login using the username you "remebered from step 5 and the new password you recently reset.
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Topic #WordPressAdam Singer began programming for the World Wide Web in 1998 while working as an Informational Specialist for the Bureau of National Affairs, a Fortune 500 publishing company based in Washington, DC. In 2001 Adam became the Marketing and Communications Director for Jetro Platforms, a server-based computing software manufacturer. In 2011 Adam founded AJ Singer Studios, an Internet Marketing company based in Savannah, GA. In 2015 Adam formed Ability SEO as a full service marketing agency specializing in using SEO, social media, and e-mail marketing to get more visitors, leads and customers
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