{"id":21,"date":"2020-12-03T14:51:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/?p=21"},"modified":"2020-12-03T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T13:54:24","slug":"how-do-i-change-my-wp-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/how-do-i-change-my-wp-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I change my WP password?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Log in, in any of the sites you have access to, with the old password.<\/li><li>In the dashboard, go to Users &gt; Profile.<\/li><li>Scroll down to the bottom.<\/li><li>Next to the text &#8220;New password&#8221;, click the button &#8220;Generate password&#8221;.<\/li><li>If you don&#8217;t like the generated password &#8212; you won&#8217;t, probably, but you <strong>should<\/strong>, it&#8217;s a good password! &#8212; you can type in your own.<\/li><li>WordPress will show you the &#8220;goodness&#8221; of your typing, as you type &#8212; as long as WP thinks your new password is weak, you&#8217;ll also see a checkbox under the password field, where you can confirm that you <em>really<\/em> want to use a weak password. <br>Please keep going until WP says it&#8217;s a strong password!<\/li><li>When you are happy and WP is happy, click the &#8220;Update profile&#8221; button at the very bottom of the Profile page. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The same username and password is used for all your logins to the WordPress sites &#8212; so if you have access to more than one site, you&#8217;ve now changed password for <strong>all<\/strong> of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some advice on how to choose a good password (and yes, WP thinks that both of those are good passwords &#8230;):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/password_strength.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.5\/\" target=\"_blank\">(CC BY-NC 2.5)<\/a> Randall Munroe, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/936\/\" target=\"_blank\">xkcd.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Log in, in any of the sites you have access to, with the old password. In the dashboard, go to Users &gt; Profile. Scroll down to the bottom. Next to the text &#8220;New password&#8221;, click the button &#8220;Generate password&#8221;. If you don&#8217;t like the generated password &#8212; you won&#8217;t, probably, but you should, it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","category-wordpress"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meb.ki.se\/sites\/meb-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}