Title: Resolving wordpress usernames and passwords programatically?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Resolving wordpress usernames and passwords programatically?

 *  [kowboy_koder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kowboy_koder/)
 * (@kowboy_koder)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolving-wordpress-usernames-and-passwords-programatically/)
 * Hi every1.
 * I’m hacking together a bit of a hybrid system that uses wordpress for CMS stuff
   and a custom-build section for other stuff (to keep it brief). I don’t really
   like the idea of having 2 databases (and thus, 2 logins) though and was wondering
   if it were possible for me to be able to resolve a WordPress username and password
   in one of my own PHP scripts? I don’t necessarily need to go as deep as unencrypting
   and encrypting WP passwords manually – if I could just know what functions I 
   need to call to perhaps save a new password and check a given UID + password 
   against the WP database, it’d be cake…
 * But yeah, not too sure where to look for that stuff. Any advice?
 * Thanks guys.

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 * [encryption](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encryption/)
 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)

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