• Stupid mistake: forgetting your wordpress password

    February 3rd, 2006. Filed under: Technology, Wordpress

    Yes, I made that mistake. It was stupid. Period.

    Logically, I would use the ‘send lost password’ function to retrieve the password from my mail but my darned server (that I did not pay sen for) was slow to comprehend such a command. So I resorted to going to the source: PHPMyAdmin.

    Should this stupid mistake ever happen to any of you, which I doubt it wil, you can see the full detail instructions here.


    Wordpress Codex>>Resetting your password

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    10 Responses to Stupid mistake: forgetting your wordpress password

    1. I guess someday sometime, everyone could end up forgeting something like that….it is so common that we have so many password to remember…unless you use 1 password for everything…

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      Malaysia Property

      February 3rd, 2006 at 2:44 pm

    2. Next time…remember what you typed in and not just rely on the saved passwords.

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      Edrei

      February 3rd, 2006 at 2:50 pm

    3. Yeah, the thing is that my password was generated and I forgot to change it to my own. The autosaved password already did its work so I let it be, till I reformatted my computer and everything was gone. >.<

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      Justin Wong

      February 3rd, 2006 at 3:42 pm

    4. It happends to the best of us! :) Always remember to change your system provided/generated password :)

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      Nicktay

      February 3rd, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    5. ive forgotten lots of passwords before…my wordpress’,photo galleries’,my webhosts’ cpanel’s etc

      can be quite embarrassing to be emailling the webhost to ask for a new password.

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      reallybites

      February 3rd, 2006 at 6:19 pm

    6. Why don’t you just have a few standardized passwords that you use for different accounts? Wouldn’t that be easier?

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      Darkstalker

      February 4th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

    7. Like I said earlier, I forgot to change the password from the one generated for me upon installation to my standardized one. Refer to comment #3

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      Justin Wong

      February 5th, 2006 at 2:01 am

    8. Hope that will never happen to me :)

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      Jacky

      February 5th, 2006 at 4:15 pm

    9. Even so, don’t random generated passwords have a sort of reference e-mail to pass the word on the password back to you if you lose it?

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      Darkstalker

      February 5th, 2006 at 11:29 pm

    10. I kinda lost that e-mail too.. >.<

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      Justin Wong

      February 6th, 2006 at 12:03 am