Blogosis

Hey all! I’ve been gone a few days! Did you miss me?

I actually haven’t been anywhere. I was fiddling with my computer when the hard drive exploded. “Fantastico” I said with a few less vowels and a ‘k’ at the end. I used the rest of the money in my bank account to put a new one in (luckily I knew something like this was going to happen so I also invested in an external hard drive the day of my last post and backed my important files (Peak/Pancake images) up.

So I get booted back up in my… ick he installed Vista… Windows Vista machine ready to start blogging. I head to my admin panel. Oh, look at that. User name and password. I take a few cracks at it to no avail. I attempted to enter the email and user name for the account to recover the password, but that didn’t work. How could I have been so stupid as to not write down my own user name and password to my blog!? I was pretty steamed and not ready to look for an answer. I thought I was screwed and Blogosis would be no more.

I took these past two days to reflect on what I would do. Should I continue to play with Blogosis? I contemplated selling it to some sucker without the password. Should I wipe my databases and start anew? I just don’t think I could have pulled through with that after all the work on these posts. Should I hire someone to copy all my posts and paste them on a new blog? I was just to lazy to recreate this one. I looked for other options.

For all of you that don’t know your admin password, have no fear. Justin Dupre has found your answer! Emergency.PHP is an amazing script that lets you load it up to the database, go to that URL, enter in any user name already integrated on your Wordpress blog and change its password as easy as that. Remember to delete the script from the database when you are done, or others may discover it and easily “hack” your blog. The Emergency.PHP script can be found at Village-Idiot.

Or to avoid this kind of trouble, save the password and user name in a safe place when you create a blog.