Title: Do I exist?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Do I exist?

 *  Resolved [alandrover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alandrover/)
 * (@alandrover)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/)
 * Am I a WordPress user, I ask myself? After a longish absence and a change of 
   password, I seem to exist as far as this WordPress site is concerned, but according
   to my admin login page, my username does not exist, nor if I ask for a new password,
   does my e-mail address! So I can’t access my own site admin! Can anyone help,
   please?
 * Thanks!
 * alandrover (I think!)

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 *  [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * (@tim-s)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/#post-2378942)
 * I would change the password in PHPMyAdmin. Here’s a link on resetting your WordPress
   password. I hope it helps!
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password](http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password)
 *  Thread Starter [alandrover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alandrover/)
 * (@alandrover)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/#post-2379060)
 * Cheers for this, Tim! I actually asked my web host to reset the password as for
   some reason I have no access to PHPmyadmin. This they did and sent me the registered
   username and a new password. So I can get in now, but the rub is that when my
   site was recently hacked, the hacker changed my username to his. I cannot chnage
   this back in my profile – is there any way it can be restored to the original?
 * Alan.
 *  [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * (@tim-s)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/#post-2379062)
 * Hey Alan,
 * I’ve never had to change my usernames in WordPress, but I pulled up my Dev site
   and you should be able to change the username in the wp_users table in your WordPress
   database.
 * I hope this helps!
 *  Thread Starter [alandrover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alandrover/)
 * (@alandrover)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/#post-2379063)
 * OK, Tim thanks – alternatively, could I create myself as a new user with administrator
   rights, then delete the rogue administrator??
 * Alan
 *  [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * (@tim-s)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/#post-2379079)
 * You can do that as well. You’ll log in with your existing user, and create a 
   new admin account. Then you’ll log out, and re-login using the new user. Then
   delete the old user. It’ll ask you if you want to remove the posts by the old
   user or re-assign them to another user.
 * I tested this on my dev site to be sure.
 *  Thread Starter [alandrover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alandrover/)
 * (@alandrover)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/#post-2379152)
 * Thanks for all your advice, Tim! I managed to make the changes in phpadmin in
   the end so everything is back to normal again! I’ve tightened up on security,
   so hopefully I shouldn’t have the same problem again!
 * Regards,
 * Alan.
 *  [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * (@tim-s)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/#post-2379154)
 * Hey Alan,
 * I’m glad I could assist you. Since WordPress is so widely used it’s extremely
   important to make sure it stays up to date and you are mindful of your passwords.
   I always recommend to people to make sure their passwords are non-dictionary 
   alpha-numeric passwords. And it’s best practice to change the Admin user so the
   username isn’t admin either.

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 * Last reply from: [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-exist/#post-2379154)
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