How to decrypt the password generated by wordpress

Question

I am using a wordpress site  I just want to know   How to get a plain text from encrypted password stored in wordpress database   I used the  wp hasher- gt CheckPassword  plain password   password hashed  to check the password is correct or not  But this time i would like to know  how to get plain text

User · Accepted Answer

You will not be able to retrieve a plain text password from wordpress.

Wordpress use a 1 way encryption to store the passwords using a variation of md5. There is no way to reverse this.

See this article for more info http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-user-password-encrypted-wp_hash_password

User · Answer

This is one of the proposed solutions found in the article Jacob mentioned  and it worked great as a manual way to change the password without having to use the email reset    In the DB table wp users  add a key  like abc123 to the user activation column   Visit yoursite com wp-login php action rp amp key abc123 amp login yourusername You will be prompted to enter a new password

[wordpress] How to decrypt the password generated by wordpress

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