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# WordPress Tip: When you Forget your WordPress Username and Password

In working with clients on WordPress projects, I routinely run across people who forget their WordPress username and password. Fortunately, if you still remember the FTP username and password, just upload [this "emergency.php" script](https://yoast.com/emergency-wordpress-access/) from Yoast to your root directory, go to http://yoursite.com/emergency.php, and voila, you can change your WordPress username and password. You may need to download the wp-config.php file to grab the database password, but that's it.