How to Reset WordPress Password on Localhost

Resetting WordPress Password

Have you ever experienced an incident like the one in the picture above? when you want to log in to WordPress but forget the password 😇. Of course this is not desirable, so how do you reset the password? On this occasion, the author will share a tutorial for recovering WordPress passwords on localhost. So it’s not for WordPress which is already online huh 😊.

Steps to Recover Password on Localhost

The steps are as follows:

1. Activate Localhost/XAMPP

2. Access your WordPress database by typing the url localhost/phpmyadmin

3. Look for your database name in the left menu of the phpmyadmin page

4. Click _users and look for your login, if you have found it, please click edit as shown in the following image. The user_pass box will be edited

5. In the user_pass drop down box, look for the word MD5 and change the password in the input text box next to it according to your wishes.

6. If it has been changed, please scroll down and look for the word Go then click.

After these steps have been carried out, please access your WordPress I page again, and type in the user and password with I user and I password.

That's the article about how to restore WordPress passwords offline or on localhost. I hope this is helpful. and you can start working again with WordPress on your local server. Good luck, always success 😊. Thank you.