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If you do alot of local wordpress tests like me, chances are you forget to change your automatically created wordpress password. Then you realize you don’t have your local smtp setup on your apache/wamp/mamp install. Then you’re googlin left and right to find how to get back in to your wordpress without bumbling with the mind boggling options of local host isp stmp settings.

So here we are. You have access to PHP my admin right?

• Open PHP My admin
• Open the database
• Checkout WP_USERS and click the little browse icon
• Click the pencil to edit admin
• Now go here to create a MD5 hashed password
• Copy the gobledygoop beside md5:
• Back in PHP Myadmin, next to the user_pass field, paste your gobledygoop
• Click go or save, whatever
• Head over to http://localhost:8888/wp-login.php and voila.

Rock on.