WordCamp Philippines

WordCamp Philippines

If you’re a Pinoy blogger or a WordPress user/fan then most likely you’ve heard or read of this already. But in case you haven’t, I have good news for you. There will be a WordCamp held in the Philippines this coming September 6, 2008. If you don’t know what I’m talking about here’s a little info.

What is WordCamp?

WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people. WordCamp is a spin off from the popular BarCamp which was a spin off of FooCamp. - Weblog Tools Collection

WordCamp Philippines will be the first ever WordCamp organized and held in Asia. WordCamp Philippines is being organized by a group of Filipino bloggers based in Mindanao who were also responsible for organizing the successful 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit held last year.

What are the objectives of WordCamp Philippines?

…to encourage more developers to use and deploy WordPress, not only as a blogging engine but also as a full-featured content management system for Web sites. Another is to increase the number of WordPress users and developers in the country. By developers, we mean programmers of WordPress plugins and designers of themes & templates.



How To: Recover Wordpress Password Part II
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In part I of this series, I showed you how to recover your Wordpress password using the MySQL command line. This time, I’ll show you how to do it with phpMyAdmin.

Before you start with phpMyAdmin, you need to create a md5 hash of your new password. You can use iWebTool’s md5 Encrypt. After you created the new md5 hash, save it and kept it for later.

Note: use phpMyAdmin at your own risk. If you are not sure on how to use it, seek further advice. I’m not responsible for any loss of data.

1. Open phpMyAdmin.
2. Click on the drop down menu and select your Wordpress database.
phpMyAdmin

3. From the list of tables, look for the wp_users table and click on the Browse icon. (the prefix may defer with different databases)
phpMyAdmin

4. Click on the Edit icon (pen icon).
phpMyAdmin

5. Look for the md5 hash of user_pass under the Value column.
phpMyAdmin

6. Change the md5 hash with the one you created earlier. If you want to use a different username, you may also change the present value with a new one.
7. Close phpMyAdmin
8. Login to your Wordpress blog with your new password (and username if you changed it).

I hope this series would provide you with the needed information when you experience this issue. Some of you might know a totally different way of doing this. Suggestions and corrections would be greatly appreciated.

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6 Responses to “How To: Recover Wordpress Password Part II”

  1. MyAvatars 0.2   jhay PHILIPPINES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 11, 2007 | 4:41 am | Reply

    Nice tutorial dude. Using phpMyAdmin is not that tough. You just have to read and read twice before you click on anything. ;)

  2. MyAvatars 0.2   Jaypee UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 11, 2007 | 8:35 am | Reply

    @jhay - Thanks man! Just trying my best to provide useful information to Wordpress users out there. Yeah, phpMyAdmin is not that difficult to use but if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can do a lot of damage to your database. Hehe :)

  3. MyAvatars 0.2   kates PHILIPPINES Windows XP Internet Explorer 6.0 on Apr 13, 2007 | 5:04 am | Reply

    Hi Jay,

    You can always use the MD5 function in the dropdown menu in the function column. This way you can just provide the plain text password and mysql will generate the hash for you.

  4. MyAvatars 0.2   Jaypee UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Apr 13, 2007 | 12:36 pm | Reply

    @kates - Thanks for info. I’ve seen and read about that but I’ve never tried that before. Hehe I’ll edit this post later when I have the time. :)

  5. MyAvatars 0.2   Jaypee UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Aug 1, 2007 | 11:45 pm | Reply

    @Henry - You’re welcome and good to know that it helped you! :)

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