Title: changing wordpress password in phpmyadmin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# changing wordpress password in phpmyadmin

 *  [surferby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surferby/)
 * (@surferby)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-password-in-phpmyadmin/)
 * By clicking user table in phpmyadmin the wordpress password can be changed for
   respective user. I have to do this for uploading the database in my test server
   xampp in windows.
 * Till now what I do is that – in the password field I put the new password and
   select MD5 which I have came to know from a site. But my curiosity is that in
   what encryption the wordpress password was saved previously when I installed 
   and set password in the web server.
 * Currently in user table the user_pass field does not have any encryption selected.
   To let the new password work I have to put the new password and also select MD5.
   What other thing does wordpress use by default to save password?
 * Can anyone shade light on it? Thanks.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-password-in-phpmyadmin/#post-2103573)
 * It’s a custom one-way encryption.

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