Title: Creating the password-setting link by code
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Creating the password-setting link by code

 *  Resolved [uncovery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uncovery/)
 * (@uncovery)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-the-password-setting-link-by-code/)
 * When a asks for a password reset on wordpress, they used to get a password emailed(
   before 4.2 or 4.3 IIRC). Today, they are getting a link instead that allows them
   to set a password.
 * What is the way to create this kind of link with PHP?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Gary Pendergast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pento/)
 * (@pento)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-the-password-setting-link-by-code/#post-6851253)
 * Hi [@uncovery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uncovery/)!
 * There isn’t a function to generate that link for you, but you can see how it’s
   done in core here:
 * [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.4/src/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L1724](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.4/src/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L1724)
 * The relevant parts are lines 1766-1777 to set up the password reset, and line
   1781 generates the link.
 *  Thread Starter [uncovery](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uncovery/)
 * (@uncovery)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-the-password-setting-link-by-code/#post-6851255)
 * Thanks a lot, this is very helpful!

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