Manually resetting user passwords

The built-in WordPress features can be used to reset the password of any user by providing the username or email. However, in some scenarios, the password reset may not work due to server issues, plugin conflicts, or issues with sending the reset email on the server. In such cases, it's important to know the process of manually resetting the password from the database to gain access to the user account.

In this recipe, we are going to manually reset the password of any user by using phpMyAdmin.

Getting ready

Open phpMyAdmin or your database tool, and have access to the database. We are going to use phpMyAdmin for this recipe.

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