How to Restore WordPress Password In localhost - If you want to learn how to use WordPress but not yet ready with your web site and also still want to learn WordPress, then you do not necessarily need to hire a hosting service first, but you can try it on your local computer with the help of software for web servers local such as XAMPP or WAMP , You can download it for free here. The local web server, you can install in various OS such as Windows, Linux and MacOS.
WordPress Tutorial this time I will explain how to restore or recover your wordpress login password on localhost, if you forget the password in wordpress on the server that is already online then you can restore these passwords very easily, with just a click Lost Your Password? under the login fields and enter your admin email, then reset your password will be sent to the email address that you use for your WordPress website, but if localhost or offline WordPress how?
Why Password Reset Not Working In Localhost?
Localhost is a term used to describe a local server that only you can see for yourself on the local network, which means that other users connected to the Internet can not access your site.
If you forget your WordPress admin password on localhost, then you can not set or reset your password with WordPress selection namely reset password.
Reset passwords using your email to send you a link to reset your WordPress password. Because WordPress you're still on the local server, then WordPress can not send mail because server need to activate the mail function. And the mail function is turned off by default on a local server which means that WordPress will not be able to send a password reset email to your email address.
But you need not worry, because there is no way to reset your WordPress password on localhost as I will explain below.
How To Recover Wordpress Password In Localhost
1. Access your WordPress database by entering the url such as localhost / phpmyadmin
2. Find the name of your database is located on the left of the phpmyadmin page.
3. Click _users and find your login, if you have found just click edit as below
Edit password on the red circle above the section of user_pass. example, you want to reset your password with "admin" and after that in the Function section,select MD5 by typing "admin" in beside of the MD5 column.
Click Go When finished, After that try to access your WordPress Admin page again, and enter user and password with user is admin and password is admin. So now you can login to your localhost account again.
Above is a simple guide on how to restore wordpress password in localhost, hopefully this article useful for you and you can start working with WordPress on your local server. good luck
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