Originally Posted by
lat9
If you can still sign into the admin of the hosted version of your website, you can use your hosting company's cPanel to access the hosted version of your database. From there, you can copy the value in that admin table's admin_pass field into the admin_pass field of the localhost version of the database. That way, the passwords will still be the same between your local and hosted version of your website.
If you cannot still sign into your hosted admin, you will need to perform the username/password reset procedure on both the hosted and localhost versions of your installation.
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