forgotten username

  • Like a total idiot I have forgotten the usename I was using to access a website I and a friend set up last year.

    I can still remember the password, but every username I try comes up with ‘imvalid username’.

    Any suggestions anyone please, as I need to update the site asap?

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  • look inside the database.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin

    thats all stored in the same place.

    Thread Starter sarahmanners

    (@sarahmanners)

    Thanx whooami

    sorry to sound so thick, but it’s my username that I can’t remember – the password’s OK.

    do you know what’s best to do in this situation?

    Do you have FTP level or Database access?

    With FTP access you could attempt to add the_author() to your single.php file and look for the readout – there’s a chance that your user id will show only so long as you had it set as the default display name for authors.

    If you have database level access you can also retrieve it from there. Just go to the wp_users table and look at the user_login value. WordPress protects your user password but doesn’t encode the login or email info.

    as I stated, the username is stored in the same table as the password in the database.

    see image:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Image:changepw4.jpg

    login –> password

    ALL in the same table.

    The link whooami provides shows you how to reset a password for an individual user – in the process you can see what that user’s login name is.

    That’s the trick! ??

    Go in, locate the user but just don’t change the password. Just look for the value under “user_login.”

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