We’ve all been there: You have a website that is running well for a while. Then you want to install some updates or change some text on the home page. But when you arrive at the WordPress “wp-login.php” page you cannot even remember the username of your WordPress admin account… So, here is the solution to quickly log into your WordPress dashboard without knowing the username or the password. For now, we’ll have a look at two ways to login into your WordPress site: First one is to reset the users’ password via the Database; for this, you need access to your sites MySQL database (e.g. via phpMyAdmin).For the second alternative, we add a small script via FTP to bypass the WordPress login mechanism. 1. Reset Password via DB Even when you have access to your WordPress database, you can discover valid user names (and email addresses), but there’s no way to find out the users passwords. However, you can use the Database to insert a new password for a specific user. Note, that this approach will permanently reset the users password. First, you need to create a Password-Hash that you can insert into the Database. You can use this … Continue reading How to log into a WordPress account without a password?