Can i retrieve or reset a wordpress password manually?
 

went to go sign into an old old blog of mine today and i can't remember the password. the email is used is long since invalid, and i'mkind of stuck for what to do, is there any way i can manually draw out or reset my password as the administrator on my server?

You could use the command line in unix to make another and insert it...

Found this after searching for ways to retrieve lost wordpress passwords...

I'm not a coder, but it might be worth a try..



"Since I do not have root access to this machine, I wrote a small script, to help me out. It is a simple admin-password resetter containimg a form for setting a new admin password. The POST-value is overwrites the unretrievable on in the WordPress database:

$sql = "UPDATE ".$wpdb->users."
SET user_pass = '".md5($_POST['emergency_pass'])."'
WHERE user_login = 'admin'";
$link = $wpdb->query($sql);
wp_redirect('wp-login.php');
exit();Download: WordPress Admin Password Resetter

Usage:

Unzip
Upload password-resetter.php to your WordPress root (!this is NOT a WordPress Plugin!)
run http://[your WordPress URI]/password-resetter.php
set a new password
Very important: DELETE password-resetter.php

"

so i'm assuming i switch out 'wpdb' with whatever my database name is and 'emergency_pass' to whatever i want my new pass to be?