{"id":497,"date":"2014-12-22T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2014-12-22T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:17:33","slug":"reset-the-password-of-your-wordpress-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/reset-the-password-of-your-wordpress-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset the password of your WordPress installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgot the password of your <strong>WordPress <\/strong>installation ? You can now reset the password for your WordPress installation from the <strong>Softaculous Enduser panel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wordpress-logo-hoz-rgb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wordpress-logo-hoz-rgb-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wordpress-logo-hoz-rgb-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wordpress-logo-hoz-rgb-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wordpress-logo-hoz-rgb-624x208.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wordpress-logo-hoz-rgb.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Resetting the password from Softaculous is very simple and does not require any technical knowledge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1)<\/strong> Login to your control panel and go to <strong>Softaculous -> All Installations <\/strong>and click on the <strong>Edit Installation <\/strong>button next to the installation for which you want to reset the password.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password1.png\" alt=\"WordPress-Reset-Password1\" width=\"1009\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password1.png 1009w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password1-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password1-624x241.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1009px) 100vw, 1009px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2) <\/strong>On the <strong>Edit Installation <\/strong>page fill in the following fields :<br \/>\n<strong>Admin Username <\/strong>: This will be the username for which you want to reset the password.<br \/>\n<strong>Admin Password <\/strong>: This will be the <strong>NEW<\/strong> password.<\/p>\n<p>After filling the above details click on the <strong>Save Installation Details <\/strong>button to reset the password.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password2.png\" alt=\"WordPress-Reset-Password2\" width=\"1007\" height=\"1583\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password2.png 1007w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password2-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password2-651x1024.png 651w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password2-624x981.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the password is reset you will see the success message as follows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password3.png\" alt=\"WordPress-Reset-Password3\" width=\"1006\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password3.png 1006w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password3-300x63.png 300w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/WordPress-Reset-Password3-624x130.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 3) That&#8217;s it! You password has been reset. You can now login to your WordPress installation using the new password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgot the password of your WordPress installation ? You can now reset the password for your WordPress installation from the Softaculous Enduser panel. Resetting the password from Softaculous is very simple and does not require any technical knowledge. Step 1) Login to your control panel and go to Softaculous -> All Installations and click on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/reset-the-password-of-your-wordpress-installation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reset the password of your WordPress installation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-tos","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}