I have been trying to reset my admin password for my local install of wordpress running on MAMP. Previously had been working fine but I forgot the password but when I go through the process of 'Lost your password' I am meant to get an email with new password but it never arrives in my hotmail (also checked the junk) I know these can sometimes take a while to come through but it has been a day now.. Any ideas I could try?
Thanks
Probably you dont have any mail server installed/enabled (like sendmail/qmail/postfix) in your local machine. You can still reset your admin password from database. The table "wp_users" stores the password in the "user_pass" field
You can just replace the value with a md5 hash value of your desired password for the admin user.
Note: This is good for test/local environments and dont do so in Production server because it invalidates the effect of salt :)
You can reset the password via code also. Below are the steps:
Paste the below code in your active theme's functions.php file.
wp_set_password('password',1);
Put in your own new password for the main admin user. The "1" is the user ID number in the wp_users table.
