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March 16, 2019
Replacing a forgotten WordPress password
What is the best part of creating a new blog? You create everything, move content, and then get back to the daily grind. Come back to write the next post and, wait, what did I set as the WordPress password? Looks like we’re going to have to overwrite the hash in the database.
<pre class="wp-block-code">``` mysql> SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM wp_users; +----+------------+------------------------------------+ | ID | user_login | user_pass | +----+------------+------------------------------------+ | 1 | admin | $P$BThiRip7s2lXh/PBVW7yFnKbQWvDtc0 | +----+------------+------------------------------------+ Here’s the problem though, we need to know how WordPress hash passwords in version 5.