Dashboard access
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If you mean the WordPress logo and the words “My Site” in upper left corner, I do not get any menu when I hover the cursor over it from the main blog page, on either Mac-Safari or PC-InternetExplorer. Is there another place to which you are referring to when you say “My Sites”?
When I hover over it ON THIS SUPPORT page, I get a pop down menu, but then no additional menu comes up when I hover over the blog name.
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Staff need to know exactly which browser (and version of it) you’re using. You can find that out by checking here if necessary http://supportdetails.com/ and then post the result here.
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May I ask if you have a new blog?
Apparently WP eliminated the link to WP-Admin from newer blogs!
I have an older one so it’s still there as I described.
Please see this other thread on this issue:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wtf-happened-to-wp-admindashboard-link?replies=4From staff:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wtf-happened-to-wp-admindashboard-link?replies=4#post-2492689 -
Here is another thread with Staff’s response:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-dont-see-link-to-wp-admin?replies=34#post-2487840Another “new change” on WP so I can never recommend using WP for anyone interested in setting up a new blog.
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@dandelionsalad
I think the response to the removal of the Admin link amounts to much ado about nothing.The dashboard of all wordpress.com hosted sites is found at
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Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account.
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard (Admin section).
If you have more than one username account and you want to access the dashboard of a blog registered under another username account of yours, then you log out, clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies and log in under another account.
One you are logged in clicking this link should display all blogs registered under the same username, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If you do not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then
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In this case I suspect there could be a browser related issue ie. that the browser is interfering with the gray/black Admin bar display. That is why I asked for the versions of the browsers being used.
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Yes! That’s it. I have a brand new blog, so the hover-over menus are not available to me. I don’t think we should have to type in a URL to reach Admin. I commented as much on the other thread. Thanks for getting to the bottom of it for me, @dandelionsalad, which by the way sounds delicious.
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[opinion] I think we ought to consider the value of learning where our dashboard features and content are situate by knowing what the URL structure is. I have done that and because I’m an old timer (9+ years) I know bottom line is: If Staff provide a convenient link then they can remove it and we learn nothing. We are at a standstill fuming and posting support threads instead of blogging. Knowing what the URL structure is means matter how many convenient quick links are provided and removed by Staff I’m still independently blogging on – no crutch required. [/opinion]
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timethief, thanks for your help today. I followed your blog. I have unrelated questions: I am inviting users to be Authors on my blog, and I want to best instruct them on how to participate.
1. They must have a wordpress.com account to be Authors and create their own blog, correct? So I should instruct them to set up an account with Username, Photo, etc?
2. After that, when they want to log in each day to participate on my blog, can they just type in my URL, optionsbistro.wordpress.com ? Or do they need to log in to their own blog first, then switch over to my blog.
3. If an Author makes a post and then a Viewer replies to it, will only the Author get an email to Approve the reply, or will I also get it? Is it possible to have us both get the approval, or only me instead of the Author?Thanks a lot!
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Thanks jeffcp66. Sorry that the convenient link is not available for you and others with newer blogs. You’ll have to make a bookmark for it.
@Timethief, when WP makes changes only to newer blogs, those of us with older ones will not be able to help them in the forums as easily as before. It’s also confusing.
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1. They must have a wordpress.com account to be Authors and create their own blog, correct? So I should instruct them to set up an account with Username, Photo, etc?
Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. Note that he or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option.
The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
Note that you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
Upon receipt of the invitation the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.
Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/Every wordpress.com account is also a gravatar account so they can upload a gravatar without registering a blog.
Note that gravatars/blavatars (favicons) do not show up instantly after uploading them. Gravatar images are cached and frequently take several days to display after a change.
Dashboard → Settings → General
Do not keep uploading!
Do not forget to select an image rating.See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/blavatars/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/For best practices for uploading gravatars, avatars and blavatars scroll down to below the video here: http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/gravatar-avatar-blavatar/
To enable Gravatar display and hovercard display on your blog go to > Settings > Discussion and scroll way done the page to “Avatars”.
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3. If an Author makes a post and then a Viewer replies to it, will only the Author get an email to Approve the reply, or will I also get it? Is it possible to have us both get the approval, or only me instead of the Author?
See here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-notifications/
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If they don’t set up a blog and only set up a username, will they still be able to access Admin features such as approving replies to their posts?
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Hi, the easiest, most foolproof way to access your WP-Admin area is to type /wp-admin after your site URL, then bookmarking that site.
Newer accounts do not include a link to the WP-Admin Dashboard under My Sites, because we have a new interface now that more closely matches the mobile experience. Having two different interfaces can be confusing, so if a user has presumably never known wp-admin, we don’t show it to them anymore.
You can access the newer administration area by logging into WordPress using an administrative account, and clicking on My Sites. You can actually manage multiple sites there with one link, see stats for all of your sites at once, etc.
But if you prefer using wp-admin, you may! Just use the bookmark method mentioned above. :)
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supernovia, is this for all new blogs or only new ones from people who have never had a WP blog? So if I decided to have a new blog, would there be no link to WP-Admin?
I can’t begin to tell you how much I dislike the “new, too-blue-to-use” editor, and other “new” interfaces on WP. I only use the classic versions of Stats, editor, etc.
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New accounts. If you already had an account before these changes, you would still see a link to wp-admin for now, even if you add a new site. I hope that helps!
And we will work on getting those articles updated. Thanks for bringing that up, @trolleyway :)
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@supernovia
Please do not be sidetracked by dandelionsalad’s posts here on the topic that has already been posted into the relevant thread by both dandelionsalad and jeffcp66.Note that jeffcp66 has other unanswered questions in this thread.
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Yeah this is a long thread :) I looked for the post previous to the one where you tagged us with Modlook, and answered that.
I wasn’t sure whether anyone wanted more help with the other questions or whether you’ve got those handled.
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