WordPress I changed database user password and site cannot connect database since

Question

I recently changed my user password at the Bluehost database and since then my website doesn't work. The page shows: Error establishing a database connection. I tried to change the password back but it doesn't work. Can you help me to fix it? Thank you!

Answer 1

If you changed the user/pass of the database, you also have to change the user and password in the wp-config.php file which is in the wordpress root directory.

Answer 2

The only time that WordPress doesn’t like it if you change the database password is if you don’t change in on the database user and in the wp-config.php file. Both have to be done together.

define('DB_NAME', 'database-name');
define('DB_USER', 'database-username');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'database-password');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');