Category: Wordpress

Updating files on a remote server with ftp is scary.  I like ssh.  Install a very cool wordpress plugin called “SSH Sftp Updater Support”.

The easiest way I found is to:
• download to local system and remote ssh it to the server.
• unzip and install in wordpress/wp-content/plugins

may have to restart apache, I dont know. Now you have ssh as an option now.

SSH Sftp Updater Support

WordPress password updates can be creating an md5sum formatted string.  I used http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php

I used the command line of mysql to login to the wordpress database and searched for the id of the password I needed:

select * from wp_users;

then, updated the password to the new password:

update wp_users set user_pass = “<md5sum-asfasfasfasfasfasf” where id = 12

back to work.

Source:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password