---
title: "Resetting Wordpress password"
date: "2016-08-14"
category: "wordpress"
slug: "resetting-wordpress-password"
---

## Overview

You can reset your WordPress admin password directly from the ApisCP control panel without needing access to the WordPress dashboard or email.

## Resetting Your Password

1. Log in to the [[logging-into-the-control-panel]]
2. Navigate to **Web** > **Web Apps**
3. Select the hostname where WordPress is installed
    - If WordPress is in a subdirectory (e.g. `example.com/wordpress`), click the dropdown and select **Edit Subdir**
4. If WordPress has not been detected at this location, click **Detect** first. Then select **Change Admin Password**.

    ![Resetting a WP password. First select Detect, then Change Admin Password](kb-image:wordpress-change-pw-process.png)
*Resetting a WP password. First select Detect, then Change Admin Password*
5. Enter a new password
6. Click **Change Password** to confirm

Once the password is changed, the confirmation message will include the admin username for the installation.

![Success message following a password reset, including the username of the WP install.](kb-image:wordpress-pb-success.png)
*Success message following a password reset, including the username of the WP install.*
