 <p>You will not be able to retrieve a plain text password from wordpress.</p> <p>Wordpress use a 1 way encryption to store the passwords using a variation of md5. There is no way to reverse this.</p> <p>See this article for more info <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-user-password-encrypted-wp_hash_password">http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-user-password-encrypted-wp_hash_password</a></p>