Getting "page not found" error when trying to update my profile
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I want to update my profile email address (via this page: https://wordpress.com/wp-admin/user/admin.php?page=grofiles-user-settings ). When I do so and then click the “Save Changes” button, I get a “Page Not Found”. Note that this is a wordpress.com hosted thing, not a blog I’ve set up myself. (I don’t even have a blog — I’m just trying to try out the Reader feature).
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A WordPress.com account an a Gravatar account are one in the same.
http://blog.gravatar.com/2013/04/03/gravatar-and-wordpress-com-together-forever/You have two separate email address settings at WordPress.com.
Blog notifications for the admin (like comment moderation, Likes, new subscriptions, etc) are sent to the email address at Settings -> General in the Dashboard.
Personal notifications (like comments on your post, subscription emails, and upgrade renewals) are sent to the email address at Users -> Personal Settings in the Dashboard.
Try changing it at http://wordpress.com/#!/settings/ first.
If that doesn’t work, try Users -> Personal Settings in your blog’s Dashboard.
Issues Changing your E-mail Address > http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-address/#issues-changing-your-e-mail-address
Note: After the change you will receive an confirmation email. Please be sure to check your spam/junk mail filter in your email client, if you cannot locate it.
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Thank you for the answer (although the broken link is still broken).
Anyway, your solution shows just ANOTHER broken link! Here it is: you can request on your link an email change, the email confirmation is sent, and clicking the confirmation link from the message takes you to… wordpress homepage. No email change is ever performed, great security settings.
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Not to worry as I have tagged this thread for Staff assistance. Please be patient while waiting for their help.
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Are you able to change your email address from https://wordpress.com/#!/settings/account/ instead?
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Thank you, but if I try to change the account email from here:
https://wordpress.com/#!/settings/account/
I enter the new email, save, the confirmation is sent ok. In the message I click the confirmation link and oops, this takes me to this:
http://wordpress.com/?new_email_result=0#!/settings/account/
Which looks like… the wordpress homepage! No email gets changed, of course :( -
Make sure that you’re logged in to WordPress.com before you click the confirmation link.
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OMG, that was it! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!
Could you please – from now on – also explain this in the confirmation email text? -
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OP here… I was able to change my email via https://wordpress.com/#!/settings/account/
But for some reason I wasn’t seeing that portion of the site for a few minutes after I logged in. But now it’s all good (in fact, I don’t even know how to get back to the original pages I was having trouble on). Weird.
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