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.

So in order for you to reset that administrator password, lets see how you can use phpMyAdmin to reset it. You just have to follow the following:

1. Go to your phpMyAdmin page;
2. Select the database where your blog was installed;

3. Select the wp_users table and then Browse near the top left in the next frame;

4. Click on the Edit (pen) icon on the row with user_login as admin

5. Select MD5 in the function field of
user_pass and type the password you want in the value field;

6. Finally, click OK button.

Yeah! Thats it. Of course, there is another way of doing it without phpMyAdmin by just using the command line BUT you have to use the md5 command while you are changing the password.