Not sure how many folks on here are well-versed in WordPress but here's the issue I'm having: I have two usernames and passwords, both of which I am 110% are exactly right because I can log in to the main site at wordpress.com.

The issue I'm having is with commenting on blogs (lots of my business contacts, etc.). When you have to log in it says my username/password is invalid - including on blogs that I've commented on before. I've sent a message to WordPress customer support, but surprisingly, no help there.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue? Any suggestions?

8/15/2008 4:01:53 PM

well i do know that the usernames are case-sensitive...

so for instance prospero won't work, but Prospero will.

8/15/2008 4:06:34 PM

Is there a uniform host or something? I run several wordpress driven websites, but your "wordpress" login won't work on them.

Anyway, I would try emailing the administrators for the websites in question.

8/15/2008 4:53:14 PM

^^ thanks, not it though

^ thanks!

8/15/2008 5:08:42 PM

Quote :

"your "wordpress" login won't work on them."

think this is correct

8/15/2008 11:37:27 PM

I think anything hosted at _____.wordpress.com will all use your main wordpress.com account, but sites that are self-hosted but happen to just run on Wordpress will each have their own individual accounts

8/17/2008 8:28:32 PM

If this is on someone else website, contact their admins to make sure your user accounts are working just fine. They might have just disabled users for the time being or a number of issues. If this is on your site, make sure user permissions are set accordingly and that you are indeed using the correct user name and password.

If all else fails, login to your mysql database, delete the password table of your user name and replace with a new password using the MD5 encryption method. You don't know how many times I've done this as I keep forgetting user names & passwords, or resetting other's.

8/18/2008 2:00:57 AM

^ There are more user friendly ways to change and reset passwords.

8/18/2008 12:34:40 PM

Wordpress is both a blog hosting site, and a blog web site system. Webmasters (people who own and manage websites) can choose to install the Wordpress software on their own website. When they do this, they use their own database to store users (and posts, and all other data).

The blog site Wordpress.com uses the system from wordpress.org, as do all other Wordpress sites, but they do not share user data. If you create an account at wordpress.com, your username and password are in the wordpress.com database. If you create an account at blog.joesmith.com, your user and pass is in the joesmith database.

So you have to have one account for each different web site. When you reach a new Wordpress site, you have to create a new account for that site's blog, which is not connected in any way to wordpress.com other than the system used.

8/18/2008 12:42:30 PM

did you create a new account just to post that?

8/18/2008 1:05:56 PM