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title: How to reset the admin password in WordPress
description: "In this article, we present three different ways to change your WordPress password if you have forgotten it. You can also learn how to change the email address associated with the admin account. ## **Reset WordPress Password via the Lost…"
url: "https://www.host-age.com/kb/wordpress/how-reset-wordpress-admin-password/"
updated: "2025-07-31"
category: WordPress
---

# How to reset the admin password in WordPress

In this article, we present three different ways to change your WordPress password if you have forgotten it. You can also learn how to change the email address associated with the admin account.

## **Reset WordPress Password via the Lost Your Password? Link**

Go to www.your-domain.com/wp-admin (replace www.your-domain.com with the domain name for which you want to reset the password).
Under the login form, click on the **Lost your password?** link.

![Reset WordPress admin password](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-1-1.png)

Enter the email address or username for which you want to reset the password and click **Get New Password**.

![Enter email address to reset WordPress admin password](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-2.png)

## **Reset WordPress Password Using Softaculous**

This password reset method is valid only if you installed WordPress using Softaculous in cPanel.

Access cPanel at www.your-domain.com/cPanel and in the **Software** section, click the **Softaculous Apps Installer** button.

![Click Softaculous Apps Installer in cPanel](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-3a.png)

On the new page, click **Installations**.

![Click Installations button](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-3b.png)

Click the **Pencil** icon next to the WordPress installation you want to edit.

![View list of installed WordPress and edit settings](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-3-1024x128.png)

On the new page, enter your desired new username in **Admin Username**. Enter the new desired password in **Admin Password**, and enter the username you want to use to log in at **Sign on Username**.

![New settings for WordPress](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-4-1024x281.png)

At the bottom of the page, press the **Save Installation Details** button.

![Click Save Installation Details button](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-5.png)

## **Reset WordPress Password Using phpMyAdmin**

Access cPanel at www.your-domain.com/cPanel and in the **Databases** section, click the **phpMyAdmin** button.

![Click phpMyAdmin button in cPanel](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-6.png)
On the right side of the newly opened page, click on the database name. (If you have multiple databases, you can find out the one used by downloading the wp-config.php file from your WordPress installation folder – usually public_html. Open wp-config.php with a text editor and look for the line
define( ‘DB_NAME’, ‘cpaneluser_databasename’ ); – **cpaneluser_databasename** is the database you need.)

![Click database name in phpMyAdmin](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-7.png)

After clicking the database name, all tables will be displayed on the right. Click the **Browse** button next to the table something_users (the prefix varies per WordPress installation; in the example image below the prefix is wpsi_).

![Click Browse button next to users table](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-8.png)

After opening the table, click on the email address in the **user_email** field. An editable field will appear where you can change the email address. Click anywhere on the page to disable editing and you can close the web page.

![Edit admin account email in WordPress via phpMyAdmin](https://www.host-age.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/wordpress-parola-uitata-9.png)

Now you can request a password reset as described at the beginning of this page under **Reset WordPress Password via the Lost Your Password? Link**.