Could you please help me with unresolved registration issues?
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This is a repeat, as the simple response I was given didn’t help. I added a longer one restating the questions, and that resply never made it on to the thread. I’d been waiting a day and a half to hear back when I discovered that fact. Here’s where we were before that:
“I have questions about registrations. My husband, for instance, appears to be registered at my site, in that when he clicks in or logs in, he can see his name in the upper right-hand corner. And yet he is NOT listed in the list of Users inn my dashboard. Given that, of course, I cannot enable him to author or to edit.
When a person clicks the Registration button, he/she is taken to a WordPress.com page that seems to be a page to register to get one’s own blog, not simply to register at my site. Over on the right of the page is a hyperlink to only register at the site. Please explain the difference.
Also, he is registered at another WordPress site, firedoglake, and had tried to register here with the same email, user name and password. The software told him his username was already taken. Why?
Third, is there a way if registrations don’t get activated for some reason (no email, even in a person’s Junk mail, that I can enable their registration from the admin side of my site?
1. MacManx responded: He has registered as a WordPress.com user, but he’s not specifically a user on your blog.
You’ll need to invite his account from Users -> Invite New in your blog’s Dashboard. “First, all the invitation amounts to is asking someone to Follow my blog. No one I’ve invited received Registration advice.
I need to know what to expect to occur, and not just utter idiotic ‘I dunnos’. Does a person have to have created a blog through the main Registration button, or can they just use the hyperlink to the right of the domain name for a blog start up that says it’s just for registering *at my site*?
Again, my husband is registered, but doesn’t show up as a User, even though I have invited him from the admin side.
Also, is the Text tab in Edit for embedding images and videos in html code?
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Your husband is registered as a WordPress.com user, he has not been made a user on your blog.
You need to go to Users -> Invite New in your blog’s Dashboard, enter his username, and invite him at the desired user level.
He will then receive a confirmation email with a link to click. When that link has been clicked, he will be a user on your blog.
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That explanation was helpful, and bore fruit; thank you. I won’t have to appear quite so clueless now. ;~)
I wonder if you might answer my other questions as well. Should folks not wanting to create their own blogs simply use the link at the right side of the Registration page? And if they don’t receive an email about their registrations, I won’t know their user names or emails, so that method won’t work.
Now it may be that some folks didn’t do the registrations correctly, and that’s why they received no emails. Or should they, just for registering at my site?
Thank you in advance. And is the Text tab for html code embedding?
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If folks don’t want a blog, they’ll have an option to create a blogless account when registering at WordPress.com.
If they don’t receive their activation email, they should check their spam folders first and contact us if they still haven’t received it.
There is no way to register just for a specific site. For folks to be users on WordPress.com blogs, they will need a WordPress.com account.
Yes, the Text editor tab is for editing the raw HTML.
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Thank you, macmanx; they had checked their spam. How would they contact you? And if it’s registering for a wordpress account, is that why my husband, for instance, couldn’t use his (wordpress) screen name and password to register again?
I’ll send the invitations a second time to see if that helps.
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And if it’s registering for a wordpress account, is that why my husband, for instance, couldn’t use his (wordpress) screen name and password to register again?
He can’t register for a new account because he’s already registered. Your blog doesn’t have it’s own user system. Everyone here has one WordPress.com user account, and that one account is invited to the blogs it wants to be on. You don’t register separately for specific blogs.
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How would potential (as in: desirous) new registrants contact you when they receive no emails from you after they attempt to reply ‘yes’ to the invitations?
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What do you mean by “attempt to reply ‘yes’ to the invitations”?
You don’t reply to an invitation email, there’s a confirmation link in the email that needs to be clicked, that’s all.
What is the username or email address that you’re trying to invite?
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most recent who failed to register:
(email visible only to moderators and staff)
(email visible only to moderators and staff)
It’s hard to know what’s going on, as many of us aren’t very tech-knowledgeable, it seems, though we’ve navigated through other registrations over the years, and have even blogged through wordpress sites.
Thanks in advance, but in addition, you mentioned ‘contacting wordpress’; do we only do it through the help forums? This may come up again, and it would be good to know how to steer people to answers. And yes; I feel like an idiot, lol.
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Ok, let’s simplify this a bit by taking some of the automation out of the process, because I think that’s causing the confusion here.
First, have them visit http://wordpress.com/ to signup for a new WordPress.com account.
They’ll receive an activation email with a link which must be clicked.
Once they have active user accounts, invite their WordPress.com usernames via Users -> Invite New in your blog’s Dashboard.
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That takes me to the Signup page, and we’re back to square one, no? That is to sign up for a wordpress blog. So, again, on the right side of the page is a link to just sign up for a wordpress *username*. That is what hasn’t been generating an email, as far as I can tell from those who’ve tried to register. I can’t swear that they’ve filled out the fields properly, but how hard can it be?
But…I’ll just send them that page, and assume this time it may work, lol.
If so, I’ll let you know. ;~)
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