If you have forgotten your password on your wordpress, can easily retrieve new password by easy way steps.
Open your Wordpress Login page (The url something Like : http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ or http://yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/ )
Click on Lost your password? you will be taken to a page
http://yourdomain.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
Enter the your Wordpress Admin email id on textbox and click on Get New Password.
Suppose If you couldn't remember the email id, don't worry you can reset it directly in the database.
Open your phpMyAdmin and select your database and a execute query;
// If the database name is wordpressdb.
Click on sql menu and enter the query to use database ;
Your SQL query has been executed successfully (Query took 0.0002 sec)
The admin login details stored in wp_users table, Execute the query to open the table details
Execute on below queries to add the email id admin@thelinuxfaq.com “ in wp_users table
Wait until your new password is emailed to you,
Once received new password in email, login and change it to new password on your profile page.
And another way to update email id directly on Table click on database name in phpMyAdmin,
Select the wp_users table using below queries.
SELECT * FROM `wp_users` ;
Click on edit ( you can also edit most values by double-clicking directly)
Enter your email id under user_email Field and enter "Go" button, it will be changed.
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