SQT: Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid
June 21st, 2008 · by David Bradley
When trying to reset your Wordpress blog password, have you seen the following message?
Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid.
Apparently, it’s a bug in Wordpress 2.5.1, according to Brian Turner. Basically, it means that password recovery won’t always work and suggests the following workaround based on using phpmyadmin from cPanel in your hosting account. Click on the Wordpress database name, and in the row “wp_users” click on the first icon for “browse”. Next, click on the pencil icon for editing the table, then do the following:
User pass > Function > MD5 (encryption) and type in your new password
Finally, click the “Go” button and you should then be able to login to your Wordpress blog.
However, what happens if you have unusual hosting (non-Apache) or else no access to cPanel or phpMyAdmin for one of your blogs? Readers, please help!
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2 responses so far ↓
Funny that you should post this just now. It happened to me this very morning. Luckily the email told me my username, which I had forgotten too. This allowed me to track down my password in a heap of notes. Otherwise…
Ulrich, nice to hear from you, it’s been a while. Yes, you’re lucky, I’m still locked out of one of my smaller, specialist blogs, at least until I can talk to the IT guy on Monday…silly me are for not keeping a paper record.
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