recover password
Yes, I forgot my password
And guess what? I went to that page where you enter your email or username and receive a link on your email.
Pretty easy, right?
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NO!
Unfortunately, when you install wordpress, it generates a key for you that will be used to recover your password. Therefore, in the email, you get a link like:
domain.com/blog/wp-recover.php?key=somestringhere.
Here comes the problem: wp includes the &  when generating these keys (and for some reason it seems to include it everytime I install a blog, lol), but the &  char is used to separate the request variables sent by GET. That ‘s why, when you click on that link, you get a wrong key  error, because if the key is 1234567&9, wordpress will get only 1234567, which is wrong (duuh).
Solution? I have one that I use. I just open phpmyadmin on my server, go to wordpress database in the wp_users table and change that key to something else (of course, 1234 won ‘t do as you might get up one day with all your posts deleted ). After I ‘m finished with that, I do the process again and I ‘m able to set a new password.
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