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Your password reset link appears to be invalid. Please request a new link below.

Your password reset link appears to be invalid. Please request a new link below. Did you get stuck by that message? Yeah, me too. On WordPress.org original site. And that makes me thinking about it. They shouldn’t be wrong. So what can be wrong? Well, the solution was that easy so it was easy to skip. Forget about plugins, themes, cache stuff.

If you get stuck on WordPress.org, it must be something different (well, in most cases).

Ok, ok, I know. Stop writing nonsense, tell us what to do. Go into your email software or email WWW and do not click the link. Take a close look. Do you see it? Then look at it again and see tiny little “>” at the end of the link. And do to click it. Yeah, that is right. This is the reason. And it is hard to notice, because WordPress immediately redirect our link into “Your password reset link appears to be invalid. Please request a new link below” page.


It’s just a formality, but how to fix it? Click the right mouse button over the link, copy link (you may use other ways to copy it) and paste it into your browser. Make sure that “>” is deleted and hit enter or whatever you do to navigate. That will do the trick.

2 Comments

  • Tony

    it doesn’t work at all.

    Obviously, the link starts , but when you click the link in the email, it certainly remove the

    Even you copy the link without , still doesn’t work.

    • Łukasz Nowicki

      So, it only means that you have other kind of problem. My solution is for those who has working password recovery but not a very good web/mail program. I wrote about it. If your password recovery doesn’t work – you need to find out why. But this article is not about that – I clearly stated it at the beginning. I hope you don’t think that WordPress official site has broken links.

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