WordPress tells us that we can gain access to a password through the use of the PHPMyAdmin
If you have access to a C-Panel (i. e. HostGator and Cheap Domains have this) you can take one or more methods to retrieve your password this way.
Note that if you goof up in here, toodle-do-doo! You blew it Charley!
However, good news: If you do this and goof, the last part of this tutorial may still help you.
This is not recommended for most people here because some of the methods described entail some advanced moves. You must be comfortable working with databases, and if you're not, don't do this. However, in this isn't an option for hosting on WA that I know of. I skipped this method. The only access we have to the PHP My Admin area is through a WordPress plugin, Portable phpMyAdmin. This must be on the site in question, however, if you don't have a password for it to get into the back office, having the plugin will not help. If you don't have it on there in the first place, you are up a creek without a paddle anyway. However, there are other paddles in the sea!
For more information on password retrieval through PHPMy Admin, if you have some other hosting besides WA, here is a resource that will help you out...
http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/reset-a-wordpress-password-from-phpmyadmin
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 !