Username and Password Lost

  • Hi, I have lost my username and password for wordpress admin. I am unable to find the registration e-mail in my account. This does not make sense as this is the only e-mail account that I use and I never delete my e-mails. I have tried the solution of uploading the ’emergency’ recovery using filezilla but I do not understand how this works. Do I upload it and then what? It says visit a website but when I go here nothing happens. Any help please.

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  • I’m having the same problem for a blog that I’ve been neglecting for a long time. I went to sign in, and of course the cookie was no longer working to remember the username and password. I’ve tried every possible username/password combination that I can think of. WordPress doesn’t even remember my email address, and I tried all possibilities.

    Blog: https://gkbledsoe.com/bookview/

    I tried the “Register” link, and while that gets me into the dashboard, I have no administrative permissions so I can’t post nor do anything else.

    I did it!

    If this will help others, here’s what I did:

    I used my FTP program (Fetch) to open up the site, and opened up the blog folder where I have WordPress installed, and started looking into folders.

    In the wp-content folder, I found a folder labeled “cache.”

    Inside of “cache” I found a folder labeled “userlogins”

    I used a text editor to open the files I found there until I found one that had my information in it. The code contained enough clues that I figured out the username and login from there.

    Now I think I need to upgrade to a newer version of WordPress and a widgetized interface. But that’s a question (or probably a whole slew of questions) for another thread.

    I obtained the services of a person in India to develope a WP site for me. I have him my username and password to upload his work. The relationship did not work out and now I cannot get into my WP site. It may be that he changed my username and password. What can I do to get my site back–get a new username and password?

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