Question about removing wordpress from a website's root directory.?

Question

I was doing a favor for a friend's website recently. He had asked me to install wordpress for him, and I complied thinking that it would be a piece of cake. What i did not realize, however, was how new he was to websites and he never actually saved the password for the email address that he set up with his website. Not knowing that, i had the wordpress email sent to that account, only to realize that neither of us could access the email.

This leads me to my next question: how do i delete wordpress from the root directory, and start all over? I just plan on deleting it, and re-installing it with a different e-mail attached. I'd really appreciate the help because i have no idea of how to delete wordpress, and my friend is a little mad at me (whose responsibility was it to save the password when he set up the email?)

Answer 1

Or, instead of deleting and starting over, you can log in to phpmyadmin (in your friends control panel), select the wordpress database, go to search, select all of the tables right below to search in, and search for the email address you need to change. Then change the password by following the instructions here:



http://technicalconfusion.com/wordpress/changing-your-wordpress-password.php

Answer 2

You could just change the email address.



Or you delete all the Wordpress files, go into the database and delete all the tables in the wordpress database and reinstall Wordpress. (If you have phpMyAdmin, just go to the database, mark all the tables and click the X at the bottom of the grid.)

Answer 3

You can actually change your email address in wordpress settings. It would be in: Admin/Settings/General/E-mail address. Click "save changes"



However if you still want to delete from the root directory download wordpress files again from wordpress.org and compares it in your root directory which files belong to wordpress to prevent deleting cpanel files. And delete those wordpress files. If you used fantastico to install, then deinstall it with fantastico.



Once you deleted all the files, then go to mySQL database and check the database you used to install wordpress. Select that database, and choose "delete".

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Answer 5

Yep, it's on your server, so you could just go in and change the e-mail through phpMyAdmin.

Answer 6

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