WordPress: Forgot your password? How to reset it

Without password, no login - this is also true for WordPress. If you have forgotten your password, you can easily reset it and thus regain access to the CMS. Read how to do it.

If you have forgotten your WordPress password, you can easily reset it.

Forgot WordPress password: How to proceed

Many site owners use automatic login and therefore rarely enter the password manually. However, this way you can forget it all the easier. After all, WordPress has a simple method to remedy the situation. You can reset the password as follows:

1. Open the WordPress login page.
2. Click "Forgot your password?"
3. Enter the email address that your WordPress profile is linked to and click "New password".
4. You will now receive an email with a link. Follow the link to enter a new password.

After that, the new password is active and you will receive a mail confirmation about the process. By the way, in this guide you will learn how to change your password if you have access to the site.

Other options if you have forgotten your WordPress password

In addition to the procedure described above, recovering a forgotten password is also possible via the FTP client. However, for this you will need your FTP credentials and basic knowledge of PHP. To use this method, connect to your server and open the functions.php file of your theme under "/wp-content/themes/your-theme/". Add the PHP tag "wp_set_password ('new-password', 1 // User ID);" there and upload the file back to the themes folder. Now log in to WordPress as usual and remove the inserted tag afterwards.