{"id":8518,"date":"2011-06-16T03:16:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T07:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2017-02-22T04:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:07:08","slug":"how-to-reset-admin-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/how-to-reset-admin-password.html","title":{"rendered":"Joomla. How to reset admin password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<p>Because  passwords are stored using a one-way &ldquo;salted&rdquo; MD5 hash which prevents  recovering the password, you cannot recover an existing password, but you can  reset it to a new password by editing the password field in the database.<\/p>\r\n<p>1. Open  your hosting control panel <\/p>\r\n<p>2. Access  the database management tool (usually phpMyAdmin)<\/p>\r\n<p>3. Open  your Joomla database and select the jos_users table<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-1-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"joomla-reset-password-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-1-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-1-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-1.jpg 979w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"attention\">Note: if  you used another database prefix your &ldquo;_users&rdquo; table may look different (your-prefix_users)<\/p>\r\n<p>4. Select  the User you want to reset the password for and click Edit (pen icon in  phpMyAdmin)<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-3-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"joomla-reset-password-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-3-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-3.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>5. Type  new password in the Password field and in the functions field select MD5<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-3-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"joomla-reset-password-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-3-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/joomla-reset-password-3.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/files\/Joomla\/reset-admin-password.htm\" target=\"blank\">How to reset admin password<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because passwords are stored using a one-way &ldquo;salted&rdquo; MD5 hash which prevents recovering the password, you cannot recover an existing password, but you can reset it to a new password by editing the password field in the database. 1. Open your hosting control panel 2. Access the database management tool (usually phpMyAdmin) 3. Open your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[724],"tags":[582,2564,545,2410,712,810,809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}