# Wordpress Emergency

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wordpress-emergency/273119>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [October 11, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wordpress-emergency/273119 "2008-10-11T15:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Theros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Theros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Theros)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wordpress-emergency/273119/1 "2008-10-11T15:59:20Z")

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Hey all!

Remember back to that thread where I \*\*\*\*\*ed about that contractor who abandoned a project of mine? Well, I need to access to the Wordpress backend…except my contractor never gave me the password. So…my question is now, how can I access the WP backend without destroying WP and reinstalling it? Since then, I’d have to redo all of the customization of the original install…which now I can’t backup since I don’t have access to it! What can I do?

Thanks,  
Eric Huang