{"id":640,"date":"2016-07-09T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wpwhatnot.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:49:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T10:49:54","slug":"create-admin-user-via-ftp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpwhatnot.com\/create-admin-user-via-ftp\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Admin User via FTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are locked out of your WordPress site and have no access to PHPMyAdmin, add this to your functions.php file to create a new admin user account.<\/p>\n<p>Remove it from the functions file after you&#8217;re successfully logged in. 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