If it is possible to get into the worst jams with anything, Daniel here, usually finds them.
A perpetually-lost WordPress Admin area password is no exception. This tutorial shows what I did to try to retrieve it.
This is sort of an introduction and a story line.
1. Okay, I will do follow the first step...
Automatic email retrieval...
A perpetually-lost WordPress Admin area password is no exception. This tutorial shows what I did to try to retrieve it.
This is sort of an introduction and a story line.
1. Okay, I will do follow the first step...
Automatic email retrieval...
If you know the email address you used when you created the website initially, this is where you will go to get the link from WordPress which will then take you to a form where you will reset your password. Follow the instructions and it's pretty straightway.
In my case, this was HostGator. Well, that's gone now and retrieving it this way won't work for me.
So now what?
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healthywendy
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Thank you for the detailed instructions Daniel. I will take extra care not to lose my password!!
Labman
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Great Training, I hope you never need to use it. I use a program called Last Pass. It is free and stores all of your passwords in a protected file off of your computer. You do need to remember one password to get into the program but one is much better than hundreds and if you need to access your stuff from another computer, all of your passwords can be accessed from there.
reefswimmer
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Ah, the ol' ounce of prevention thing.
I do like telling Chrome to save my passwords, so if I have to I can use its retrieval list in the chrome menu . I realize there's a security problem inherent in doing this. (If I can access this menu, so can anyone who gets access to my computer. Far too easy.) So I am careful about what sites I let Chrome save passwords for.
Second, I do the send-myself-an-email trick for each user/password combo. I collect them in an oh-so-cleverly-named file. And I think I am so very clever when I just say in the email, follow algorithm. i hope my attempts at being sufficiently paranoid are never tested.
Thirdly, the algorithm itself. I never write it down anywhere, It's my own and I better never forget what it is. It does let me generate a password that is unique to each site. And i guess I could recreate it by looking at some of the passwords I have asked Chrome to save.
Fourth, when a site gives me an impossible-to-remember password, I go in and change it to my algorithm.
Last but not least, banking sites are an exception to all above rules.
And oh dear, just writing this makes me feel paranoid !
I do like telling Chrome to save my passwords, so if I have to I can use its retrieval list in the chrome menu . I realize there's a security problem inherent in doing this. (If I can access this menu, so can anyone who gets access to my computer. Far too easy.) So I am careful about what sites I let Chrome save passwords for.
Second, I do the send-myself-an-email trick for each user/password combo. I collect them in an oh-so-cleverly-named file. And I think I am so very clever when I just say in the email, follow algorithm. i hope my attempts at being sufficiently paranoid are never tested.
Thirdly, the algorithm itself. I never write it down anywhere, It's my own and I better never forget what it is. It does let me generate a password that is unique to each site. And i guess I could recreate it by looking at some of the passwords I have asked Chrome to save.
Fourth, when a site gives me an impossible-to-remember password, I go in and change it to my algorithm.
Last but not least, banking sites are an exception to all above rules.
And oh dear, just writing this makes me feel paranoid !
Tom Robarge
Premium
Nice post. I will have to remember to save email to this lesson. so if I have to I can find the resource again