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Update WordPress Password with phpMyAdmin

When you change your WordPress password using phpMyAdmin, you need to use the MD5 function to encrypt the password before you save it. This will help to protect your password from being compromised.

  • To change the password:
    • Log in to your web hosting account.
    • Click on the “phpMyAdmin” icon.
    • In the phpMyAdmin window, select the “wp_users” table.
    • Click on the “Edit” button next to the user account.
    • In the “Password” field, enter the new password for the user account.
    • In the “Function” dropdown box, select “MD5“.
    • Click on the “Go” button.
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MacOS fix: can’t access Sandisk Cruzer Glide 64GB USB

This is my totally destructive solution to having trouble mounting or reading a Sandisk Cruzer Glide 64GB. If you care about what’s on your USB stick, this is not for you.

Background

I wanted to used Balena Etcher to create a bootable Ubuntu stick. But MacOS couldn’t mount it. I tried all the Disk Utility GUI’s First Aid and Erase features but nothing worked. DU could see the drive, but couldn’t do anything with it.

Re-formatting seemed to work – from the CLI

I was finally able to get MacOS Catalina to reformat the stick into something mountable and readable by using diskutil from the command line.

First, figure out where your USB stick is:

$ diskutil list

In my case, my USB stick was at /dev/disk2. Here, we re-format using the Mac OS Extended filesystem. To see all your available options use the diskutil listFilesystems command.

$ sudo diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ NEWNAME /dev/disk2

Note about Filesystem

I had originally formatted using the APFS filesystem, but that caused balena etch to fail with an odd message “EBUSY: resource busy or locked, open ‘/dev/rdisk2“. Turns out balena did not like APFS. Reformatting with HFS+ solved the problem and I was able to successfully create my Ubuntu image.