Congratulations! You have successfully changed your WordPress password using phpMyAdmin
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:53 am
You need to delete the value in the "user_pass" field and replace it with your new password. In the "Function" column, select "MD5" from the drop-down menu and click the "Go" button.
Change user password
Your password is encrypted with an MD5 hash and stored in the database.
Some of you may be wondering why we chose the MD5 hash for password encryption.
In the older version, WordPress used an MD5 hash to encrypt passwords. Since WordPress 2.5, stronger encryption technologies are now used. However, for backward compatibility reasons, WordPress still recognizes MD5.
As soon as you log in with a password sequence stored as an MD5 hash, WordPress recognizes it and changes it with the newer encryption algorithms.
Adding a new admin user to WordPress with phpMyAdmin
Let's say you have access to the WordPress database list of germany cell phone number but not to the WordPress administration area . You can change the admin user's password, but that will prevent other admin users from using their accounts.
A simpler solution would be to add a new admin user via phpMyAdmin.
First, you need to launch phpMyAdmin and then select your WordPress database. This will display your WordPress database tables where you need to click on the “Browse” link next to the wp_users table.
Browse user table
phpMyAdmin now shows you the rows in the wp_users table.
Click the “Insert” link in the menu above.Insert new row in WordPress users tableThis will bring up a form that you need to fill out to add a new user to your WordPress site.
Change user password
Your password is encrypted with an MD5 hash and stored in the database.
Some of you may be wondering why we chose the MD5 hash for password encryption.
In the older version, WordPress used an MD5 hash to encrypt passwords. Since WordPress 2.5, stronger encryption technologies are now used. However, for backward compatibility reasons, WordPress still recognizes MD5.
As soon as you log in with a password sequence stored as an MD5 hash, WordPress recognizes it and changes it with the newer encryption algorithms.
Adding a new admin user to WordPress with phpMyAdmin
Let's say you have access to the WordPress database list of germany cell phone number but not to the WordPress administration area . You can change the admin user's password, but that will prevent other admin users from using their accounts.
A simpler solution would be to add a new admin user via phpMyAdmin.
First, you need to launch phpMyAdmin and then select your WordPress database. This will display your WordPress database tables where you need to click on the “Browse” link next to the wp_users table.
Browse user table
phpMyAdmin now shows you the rows in the wp_users table.
Click the “Insert” link in the menu above.Insert new row in WordPress users tableThis will bring up a form that you need to fill out to add a new user to your WordPress site.