Recently I had some problems reseting a wordpress password, I didn’t get the confirmation email with the password, So the best way I could find to reset it manually was to go thru the PhpMyAdmin, so, here’s what you can do:

If you are not very familiar with the PhpMyAdmin, just make a backup so that you can work without any problem.

1. 1-Login to your PhpMyAdmin account, and select your WordPress database.
2. 2-Select & browse wp_users table, look for the username, you want to reset the password and click on the edit icon next to your username.
3. 3-Once the edit page is open, select MD5 from the Function dropdown next to the user_pass row. Change the value on the user_pass row to your new password and then hit Go.
4. 4-Now fireup your WordPress admin panel, and login with your new password and it will upgrade your password to the new phpass hashing.

If you follow this steps, everything should work fine now.

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