Running a blog is one of the very fancy way of sharing and exchanging ideas to the world using the internet. However, it is not advisable to play around with your blog online especially for developers and designers because of several security reasons and also you might break down the blog in the process.

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If you use WordPress (WP) as your blog engine especially as a beginner. One of the things which is advisable to do is when you install it and get it running, you would need to change the Administrator’s password to something you can easily remember especially if you have set the blog to work on a local computer. But most likely, this doesn’t make so much sense to new users and most times, they kind of forget to change the password.

First before we can look at how to easily reset your Administrator’s password, lets see why is it important to change it? It is important because most times the administrator is given a randomly generated password which won’t most likely remember. If you are working live on a webserver on the internet, it might not be very important because the password will be emailed to the administrator’s email after the installation and also you can go to the Login page and then click Lost your password? and then you will be required to enter your Username and email address; and then a new password will be emailed to you.

However, this is not the case if you are working on a local computer because most likely your local computer wouldn’t be able to send an email. This would mean that if you lost that password, you would have to re-run the install script to get to a new password. This could be so tedious and frustrating if you had already posted new content to the blog.

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Whether you are a technical person or not, you always access certain information on the internet and sometimes this information is on a day-to-day basis like news headlines; blogs entries; podcasts; suppliers’ new products, prices; competitor’s new products, prices and so many others. Without web feeds, it is very tideous and tiresome to keep up to date with all these websites. You would have to open up each of these websites and then wait for them to load and then read whether you needed just a small or big part of it and then move to the next one till…

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