{"id":3927,"date":"2026-02-18T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/change-your-wordpress-password-in-the-dashboard\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:42","slug":"change-your-wordpress-password-in-the-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/change-your-wordpress-password-in-the-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Your WordPress Password in the Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can change your WordPress password from inside the WordPress dashboard if you know your current login details.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your WordPress admin area.<\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>Users<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Profile<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll to the <strong>Account Management<\/strong> section.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Set New Password<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Enter your new password or use the generated one.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Update Profile<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your new password should work immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Use a strong password that is not used for any other account. If more than one person manages the website, each person should have their own WordPress user account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can change your WordPress password from inside the WordPress dashboard if you know your current login details. Log in to your WordPress admin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[37],"class_list":["post-3927","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4073,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/3927\/revisions\/4073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=3927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}