Yes, it has been quite a while since my last post. This blog started out on my friend’s server, but he shutdown the server last summer and gave me a backup of my blog. Just today I created a subdomain for my WordPress blog. My friend used the plugin All-in-One WP Migration to backup my blog. I installed the same plugin and restored the backup file onto my subdomain. There were a few minor issues about the restore, but only one in particular is worth mentioning. The restore overwrote the WP database and I forgot what the passwords were for the admin and editor accounts in the backup. I had to go into phpMyAdmin on cPanel to browse the WP database. From there I looked at the user table. The passwords for the accounts are in an MD5 hash. So I can’t just type in a new password. I need to generate an MD5 hash of the new password that I want to use. This website has an MD5 hash generator which I was able to use.
http://www.passwordtool.hu/md5-password-hash-generator
Once I generated an MD5 hash, I used it to update the password field (user_pass) for the admin account and my editor account in the users table. That update allowed me to logon to my WP admin account and create this post.