I understand that San Francisco is a [removed by Staff] ,but even there,there should be easy ways to do basic things.
For example,how to reset WordPress admin password.
I tried this,but it doesn’t seem to be working or updating the password in the database.
Any idea wh
https://www.littlebizzy.com/blog/reset-password-ssh
Umm, yeah, well… hi, hello.
First of all this is a Google forum for Google specific products and issues.
What you’re asking there (not sure exactly what) isn’t specific to any of the Google products - I pray they haven’t got WP.
Back to your issue now…
WordPress password can (or at least used to be possible) be indeed changed from MySQL directly, it requires a bit of time but it should be doable.
By the sounds of it I bet you missed the MD5 bit from that article. Go and generate an MD5 string here https://www.md5hashgenerator.com/ and then use that on your MySQL query.