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I am trying to create a totally different profile page (not the one provided by Wordpress), since the layout and feel of the default profile page is too "Wordpress" for the users. Now I am successful in being able to present a page that can modify user meta data like firstname, lastname, city, zip code, etc.

Now what stumped me is changing the password of the user. Is there any built-in wordpress function, say change_user_password($user_id, $new_password)? I'm surprised that I can't look for anything that does this.

Worse comes to worst I'm doing an UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = md5($new_password) WHERE ID = $user_id, but I would be really amazed if there is no function for this one.

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    md5 for passwords in WordPress is deprecated (but still backwards compatible - next time user logins password will be re-hashed and re-saved). It is better to go through API so that current and more complex hashing scheme is used.
    – Rarst
    Commented Feb 21, 2011 at 10:27
  • Yeah, I that's my guess as well. The passwords stored in the database does not match an MD5 with the incoming password. So yeah, it is indeed rehashed.
    – Ardee Aram
    Commented Feb 28, 2011 at 7:14

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wp_set_password( $password, $user_id );

See reference for details.

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    I up voted this essentially because this results in single sql query. Excellent, if the password is, all that you want to update. wp_update_user results in about 14 queries running.
    – John
    Commented Jul 16, 2012 at 19:31
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A simple wp_update_user(array('ID' => $userid, 'user_pass' => 'myNeWpaSSword')) will do everything for you - wp_update_user() (Codex).

On a sidenote: are you aware of the Theme My Login (Wordpress Plugin)? It can provide you with a front-end side profile page.

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