username and password issues

  • Hi everyone-

    I recently bought a site from someone. The site runs off of WP. I logged in to WP and changed the account info – and password – but I get an error message when I try to log in.

    How can I find out both my username and password. (I think the person I bought the site from may be screwing around with me)

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  • Go to your phpMyadmin, and connect to your database. Open the table “wp_users”. Click on the “modify” link in front of the admin row and change the login (it doesn’t need to be “admin”, find something else), and password.
    For the password, you have to encode it in md5. Go here, enter your password, click on the md5 button, copy and paste the result in your phpMyadmin, and save.
    https://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/

    Thread Starter jaysonco

    (@jaysonco)

    thanks PozHonks – I am a newbie when it comes to all this, and that is WAY above my head.

    The thing is, I logged in (using my password) about 2 minutes after I posted my initial message. Now again, I can’t log in.

    I know my username is admin – so when I try to retrieve my password and enter my email address – it tells me that it isnt a match. Something weird is going on. What could be causing this?????

    PozHonks, similar issue here.

    I worked all day, copied a complete mirror of my whole /public_html/blog directory to my hard disk, uploaded some themes, and opened some windows while using Dashboard (I’m NOT here at Global, my WP is set up on my server; I have Admin)

    and I was changing Themes in THIS window, while VIEWING the changes in THAT window… and registered a New User in one of the new Themes… but it STILL saw me as Admin, even though it sent me an email with my new Password (random).

    When I went to the Dashboard/Themes window, I clicked on Plugins and immediately got an error message on an empty, white screen…

    THAT was the Beginning of Sorrows.

    I can’t Log In, can’t seem to overwrite the proper wp-config.php or config.php or whatever I have to do now to “Establish Contact with your mySQL database”

    Help?

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