Accessing my account
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Might as well reuse the subject, eh? My tale of woe is basically the same. Just different details…
I first investigated WordPress a couple of years ago and created a little test blog. I don’t know why I decided not to continue working with it at that time, but it was still around. That’s epistablog.wordpress.com.
Recently I decided to try WordPress for supporting a small technical writing class I’ll be teaching next semester, so I set up a new blog, tsosp.wordpress.com and started working there.
I thought the two accounts were separated because they use different email addresses. Now it appears that the new account has been locked away and the old account has been switched to the email address of the new account. I have taken a couple of steps since then, but so far it seems I cannot fix it by myself.
In conjunction with various other problems and unanswered questions, I am approaching the point of undeciding, or rather deciding to use some other system than WordPress. Many nice ideas on WordPress, but the implementation is flawed and the support system appears to be fatally flawed. Right now I believe that someone on the WordPress side decided to do this and create this problem, and without even notifying me or asking me about it. Unless I get a clear explanation of what happened and a clear explanation of why it won’t happen again, then I must conclude WordPress is unusable for my purposes.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Surely you’re currently logged in to the correct account to access epistablog.wordpress.com ?? I find usernames are easier than email addresses to use to log in to wordpress.com sites.
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Near as I can tell, I can no longer log in so that I can access the new blog. I definitely thought I was able to switch between the two of them by logging out and then logging in under the other email address. I did NOT do anything to change that condition. At least not deliberately.
Whatever is going on over at WordPress seems obscure. My current extremely fuzzy theory is that there is some rule against having two blogs, even if one of them is primarily for testing. On that theory, I think someone at WordPress has unified the accounts in some way. If the not-so-secret intention is to motivate me to pay for a service of some sort, the actual result so far is to motivate me to drop WordPress entirely.
It’s possible that there is some innocent explanation, but right now I think it would have to be some sort of bug in how the cookies are implemented. That might be a bug at the design level, however. And again, even as a design flaw it could be consistent with a policy of trying to force people to buy something.
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Lets start again. Which site are you trying to access? You have two different sites and two different accounts. To access tsosp.wordpress.com you need to log in with the username shannonjacobs695374035
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Okay, I’ll try that, but there are two obvious questions:
(1) Where did the shannonjacobs695374035 username come from. Certainly not my idea or creation.
(2) Where is this username thing documented? Or in operational terms, why couldn’t I find that documentation when I discovered the problem?
Less obvious, but (3) If this is ultimately a simple problem with the definition of “username” in the WordPress world, then to prevent more problems should I first look for a list of all the secret definitions and redefinitions of terms?
Now to the experiment…
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Extremely peculiar system you have here. Not sure if I can wrap my head around it, but it seems like I have to treat shannonjacobs695374035 as a magic password of sorts to change from one site to another. The way the switch works involves getting a new email message (after a delay) and then clicking on a new link…
Perhaps I should save that link as a magic shortcut now? And have I now cut myself off from the other site until I find out the magic 9-digit number to get back to it? I might want to do another experiment over there?
Why not the simple solution of linking each site to the email address I used to create it? Or the fancier solution of sites such as Blogger with multiple blogs controlled from one place?
In particular, the WordPress approach seems unlikely to work well for people who actually need to work on more than one blog at a time… Or maybe there’s a fancier collaboration scheme underlying this?
By the way, the experiment I did this time appears to have failed in at least two ways. I’m now guessing that some things along these same lines happened when I first studied WordPress. Back in 2011? My final conclusion at that time was to stop using WordPress, and I’m right on the brink now.
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