Title: Password changes
Last modified: January 3, 2021

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# Password changes

 *  [batbytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batbytes/)
 * (@batbytes)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-changes/)
 * I need to change the password for a website & WordPress. Do I change the website
   password through cpanel first and then change it in WP or vice versa? Thanks,
   anyone.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-changes/#post-13857251)
 * As described in this article, in WordPress, there several ways for [Rsetting Your Password ](https://wordpress.org/support/article/resetting-your-password/).
 *  Thread Starter [batbytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batbytes/)
 * (@batbytes)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-changes/#post-13857326)
 * Doesn’t help. I know how to change my WP password. What I need to know is Do 
   I change the website password through cpanel first and then change it in WP or
   vice versa?
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [batbytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batbytes/).
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-changes/#post-13857353)
 * What do you mean with “website password”?
 * Your WordPress installation is just a bunch of files that you can upload and 
   handle via FTP. You’d set your FTP connection details via your hosting provider’s
   control panel (cpanel).
 * In the file /wp-config.php WordPress stores the connection details to its database.
   If you want to change the login details to your mysql/mariadb database, then 
   you’d probably do that via your hosting provider’s panel/cpanel, too.
 * When you connect to your WordPress site, access to the admin pages and various
   levels of capabilities are granted based on WordPress user. Here the passwords,
   etc are stored in the WordPress database.
 * If you put a “reading password” on a post or a page, then this password is also
   stored in the WordPress database (and you can have different passwords for every
   page and post, if you like).
 * If you need to restore admin access to your WordPress site, then you may need
   to first add a new admin user in the database.
 *  Thread Starter [batbytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batbytes/)
 * (@batbytes)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-changes/#post-13857369)
 * I guess I’m confused because I changed the WP admin password once and could no
   longer access the website so I had to change the password back to what it was.
   Are you saying I can have different passwords for ftp access and WP access? Right
   now both passwords are the same. I’m still new to WP.
 *  Moderator [tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobifjellner/)
 * (@tobifjellner)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-changes/#post-13857376)
 * They’re totally unrelated and stored in separate places.
    And I’d strongly suggest
   that you use separate (and strong) passwords for: – login to hosting provider
   panel – FTP – WordPress database – WordPress login
 * (And, of course, your user account here are WordPress.org has nothing at all 
   to do with your site’s own credentials.)
 * Look at apps like LastPass, Enpass, etc to generate and handle good passwords.
 *  Thread Starter [batbytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batbytes/)
 * (@batbytes)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-changes/#post-13857378)
 * OK. Thanks. Maybe I’ll figure it out.

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 * Last reply from: [batbytes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batbytes/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-changes/#post-13857378)
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