In case the ”forgot password” link on the WordPress login page fails, you can change the admin account password directly from the WordPress database.
The easiest way to connect to a database is through the phpMyAdmin environment. If you still have the My Zone
control panel open in a separate tab, you can access the phpMyAdmin environment from there by selecting Databases
from the left web hosting management menu and under it phpMyAdmin
. If you have already managed to close My Zone
, direct link to phpMyAdmin: https://pma.hel01.zone.eu/ When following a direct link, first enter your domain name without the www prefix (for example, domain.fi) and click Log in
Enter the database username and password (MySQL) that you copied from the wp-config.php file.
Changing the user password
In phpMyAdmin click on the database name in the left block, then select wp_users
in the following menu (tables can have a different prefix instead of wp). In the admin user account row, click Edit
. If you installed WordPress on the server via Zone+, the username of the administrator account is zoneplus
. If you install WordPress manually, this may be admin
. Find the user_pass
row in the account edit table and select MD5
from the drop-down menu in the Function
column. Then enter the new password in the text field in the Value
column and confirm the change with the Function
button in the lower right corner of the page. Finally, try logging into WordPress with your new password.