How to Log In to WordPress from Softaculous

The installation and maintenance of our WordPress site may have been handled by a third party, which means we may not have the login details. We may also have forgotten them, or the traditional way of logging in (wp-admin) may not work. Don't panic—there's another way to access the WordPress Dashboard. This is done via cPanel → Softaculous, and in this brief tutorial, we'll show you how, step by step, with screenshots.

Brief introduction

This guide shows an alternative method for logging in to WordPress. The usual method (just in case) is to enter the address misitio.com/wp-admin

If we don't remember the password, we can reset it using the "Forgot your password? link

However, this step requires access to the email account used to create the login credentials in the first place. If we CAN'T do that, let's take the alternative route, which is the purpose of this tutorial.

Access WordPress with cPanel

This is the recommended method when we can't access wp-admin for some reason, or if we've exhausted all options for recovering the login credentials.

First, we need to access our cPanel.

Replace misitio.com with our website's actual address.

Once we're logged in to cPanel, we need to look for the WordPress icon in the "Application Installer" section (usually located at the very bottom).

After clicking the WordPress logo, we'll see a screen similar to the following:

As shown in the screenshot above, we need to look for the Admin icon and click it. We'll then have successfully accessed the WordPress Dashboard.