Actually something does happen, Wordpress resets the password internally (in the MySQL database) but the link that it sent you to activate that password fails to connect with the database effectively locking you out of your blog. In this scenario, at least for me, all the potentially viable solutions lead to dead ends.

Although it should’ve, launching the database manager to reset the password manually didn’t work. I tried doing this in various ways including this method from Codex, this one from Watching The Net and this one from Thought Outflux. But none of them worked!

Opening up wp-config.php and trying to reset the password there didn’t work there either.

I was at a loss as to what to do. That is until I found the Village Idiot Emergency Password Recovery software. Using it is simple:

• Download the script from Village Idiot WordPress Emergency Password Script.
• Unpack the downloaded zip file.
• Upload the file emergency.php to the root of your WordPress installation (the same directory that contains wp-config.php).
• In your browser, open http://example.com/emergency.php.
• As instructed, enter the administrator username (usually admin) and the new password, then click Update Options. A message is displayed noting the changed password. An email is sent to the blog administrator with the changed password information.
• Delete emergency.php from your server when you are done. Do not leave it on your server as someone else could use it to change your password.

For whatever reason this worked flawlessly where the other methods failed and I was able to regain access to my wordpress blog and set the password to something I’ll (hopefully) never forget again. I’m not ruling out operator error on the other methods but the aptly titled Village Idiot software makes the process fool-proof.

Note: Keep in mind that all of these options will only work if you are the site administrator or have direct access to the server at which the blog is hosted.

^{Look familiar? I originally published this article as a writer for DeveloperTutorials}

<h3>Title of Your RSS Feed</h3>
<?php
// assign the feed to a variable named 'feed'
$feed = 'http://url-of-your-rss-feed.com/feed/';
	if ($feed) {
		include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');
// define that 'feed' is also your url
$url = $feed;
$rss = fetch_rss($feed);
// string to return if feed fails
 	if ($rss == false){
$string .= "[No Feed To Retrieve]";
	return $string;
}
$maxitems = 10;
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $maxitems);
	foreach ( $items as $item ) :
// define the string which is '$title'
// define the action 'substr' means sub-string or 'part of a string'
// define where the feed string starts - first letter is '0'
// define the length of the feed string - 55 characters
// define the trailing characters - "..."
$title = substr($item['title'],0,55)." ... ";
?>
<ul>
<li>
// link to the rss item origin with the description as the title
<a href='<?php echo $item['link']; ?>' title='<?php echo $item['description']; ?>'>
// print the truncated RSS title
<?php print $title; ?>
</a></li>
</ul>
<?php endforeach;
}
?>
<br /><br />

This code will allow you to truncate and print the titles of an rss feed. No more worries about whether or not that aggregated feed from Twitter or another blog will break your design.

For the sake of others out there who might run into the same problem, here’s how I did it. It’s pretty simple but no one has published anything as straight forward as this, yet (or at least I didn’t find one in my Google searches).

1. Log into your MySQL database via PHP Admin
2. Find the ‘xx_usermeta’ area.
3. Find the username of the account you want want to make the ‘keymaster’.
4. Look for the area that looks like this a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;} and replace it with a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}.
5. Log-In to the account to make sure everything worked.
6. Pat yourself on the back buckaroo, you’re done!

If you know hacking, you know that having an account with the username ‘Admin’ can be a security risk. I got locked out of my account after changing my name from ‘Admin’ to something else to make it harder for potential hackers to get into my forums. Then I deleted the account called ‘Admin’ because I thought it was enough that I promoted my new username to administration status. The BBPress manual doesn’t mention the fact if you delete the Admin account, you’re deleting the sole keymaster effectively locking you out of the real administration of the back end of your site!

This technique should fix everything…at least for BBPress 0.9.0.2, the version that I used this on.