diff --git a/blog/__init__.py b/blog/__init__.py
index 50f33ab0bbe65bcc47fc0f6568a28706c8228f01..983fa93f82ce200c5d0b82de965e97b7b9ab6b7a 100644
--- a/blog/__init__.py
+++ b/blog/__init__.py
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 from flask import Flask
 from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
+from flask_bcrypt import Bcrypt
 from flask_login import LoginManager
 
-
 app = Flask(__name__)
-app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = '<dcb48b91e922460d1b73988d49fe5f98a6ea26c3c497dc2f>'
 
-# suppress SQLAlchemy warning
-app.config['SQLALCHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS'] = False
+app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = '<dcb48b91e922460d1b73988d49fe5f98a6ea26c3c497dc2f>'
 
-# DB Connection changed to mysql
 app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'mysql+pymysql://c22053853:CardiffMySQL1!@csmysql.cs.cf.ac.uk:3306/c22053853_flask_db'
-
 db = SQLAlchemy(app)
 
+bcrypt = Bcrypt(app)
+
 login_manager = LoginManager()
 login_manager.init_app(app)