How to Quickly Change (or Reset) WordPress Passwords

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You may panic if you need to change your WordPress password, you have lost access to your site and you don't know how to get back in .

Aid!

Typically this happens when someone simply forgets their WordPress password, they don't have access to their email for a standard password reset, or your WordPress site isn't sending emails correctly.

In this post, we'll walk you through some quick and easy steps on denmark phone number data how to change WordPress passwords (or reset them) for all the different types of scenarios you might encounter.

Let's start by reviewing the difference between changing your password and resetting it, so you know which one to do.

Changing your WordPress password vs. Resetting it
Changing and resetting your password in WordPress has similar results.

Changing your password is something you do yourself . If you have access to your website and profile settings, you should be able to change your WordPress password easily. In other words, you change your password when you know your current password.

Password reset is something the system will have to do for you , or perhaps ask an administrator if you are not one. In this post, we assume you are the site administrator and have access to reset other users ' passwords – something I will show you how to do later in the post.

The most important thing about resetting a password is that you do it when you don't know the existing password.