WordPress MU

Hi,

I'm a technology specialist working at a Deaf school. The installation went smoothly, but the problem is that it was installed on Windows Server 2003 and the mail server is Microsoft Mail Exchanger server so it's impossible for MU to send me the email with password information.

How do I find out my password? I know I can find it in phpmyadmin, but I cannot change it without knowing how to change it in MD5?

Suppose I create a few new blogs in MU set-up (just a few for the Deaf school) and the same password problem will happen?

What's the best way to do it without depending on email verfication (in my case, it's not that important because it'll be in a controlled environment)?

thanks!

I'm not entirely sure the whole problem has to do with exchange. However, if you just need a few blogs then go to the page below, enter whatever password you would like and the form will spit out the md5 hash.

http://calc.idtstudios.com/md5.php

This is simple, really.

Grab the coffee2code SMTP plugin for wordpress. It will allow you to use SMTP vice sendmail, with a username and password.

Just hardcode the information in the plugin file, and then comment out that part in the admin interface for smtp account options with:

if ( is_site_admin() ) : ... the smtp account settings ... endif;

Works like a champ, although you may have to add a default username in your php.ini file.

andrew,

thanks for the tip...so I just go to phpmyadmin and edit the wp-users and copy/paste the md5 password in the password field?

lunabyte, i'm sorry..it sounds complicated to me.

That would be correct. However lunabyte's solution is a viable solution as well.

I'll try that.

Thank you both for your solutions!! If I get around to Lunabyte's solution, where should I put the default username in php.ini file?

Hi, I suspect that the missing information in registering email addresses caused WPMU to slow down since there's no way for WPMU to send out email verfications so it created burdens on mysql databases?

Can WPMU bypass the email address verfication process?

I'm trying to figure out what makes WPMU so slow. I noticed that mysql's query..there are really high numbers in red so it implies that WPMU is processing too much queries.

What caused it? I plan to uninstall XAMP and install older version of XAMP.