Using the Emergency Password Reset Script
If the other solutions listed above won't work, then try the Emergency Password Reset Script. It is not a Plugin. It is a PHP script.
- Warnings
- Requires you know the administrator username.
- It updates the administrator password and sends an email to the administrator's email address.
- If you don't receive the email, the password is still changed.
- You do not need to be logged in to use it. If you could login, you wouldn't need the script.
- Place this in the root of your WordPress installation. Do not upload this to your WordPress Plugins directory.
- Delete the script when you are done for security reasons.
- Directions for use
- Copy the emergency script from Emergency Password Script and put into a file called emergency.php in the root of your WordPress installation (the same directory that contains wp-config.php).
- In your browser, open http://example.com/emergency.php.
- As instructed, enter the administrator username (usually admin) and the new password, then click Update Options. A message is displayed noting the changed password. An email is sent to the blog administrator with the changed password information.
- Delete emergency.php from your server when you are done. Do not leave it on your server as someone else could use it to change your password.
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