How to create a separate profile for a user?
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My wife needs her own profile for a blog that we created under our master WordPress account.
I invited her to be a user thinking that would create a new profile slot. It doesn’t seem to. At minimum she needs her own avatar.
I would prefer to avoid losing access to the username I created for her.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Sorry. I know of only 2 types of wordpress.com usernames = <textstring> or <email address>. She is the latter.
When I filled out the new account form, I expected her to get an independent, unrelated wordpress.com account. To my surprise her account seems to be subordinate to our master account. Hence she apparently can’t have a unique profile (my deduction).
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So I can see if the account exists on the WordPress.com side. Maybe someone else can work with hypotheticals, but you’ll have to wait for them to show up.
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Thanks. I need to investigate what I did – I thought I used email as username, then gave her a descriptive “first last”
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You see your member account here:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/stevedardenIf she has a username, it will be in that format.
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https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/dorothydarden does not exist.
If you invited her via email, she needs to accept the invitation via email. If you invited her via username, that’s why it failed; the username doesn’t exist. She should just go ahead and create the username, which she will need to do with an email DIFFERENT from the one associated with your account.
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Understood, I invited by email, replied by email going through the create new WP account first. I wonder if I failed to tap the ACCEPT button?
I just tried to create new WP account. That username is taken.
When I connect to dorothydarden.wordpress.com I get the expected alert “that blog is private” because when I was creating her account this AM it comes with an unwanted blog so I marked it private.
I can get around the identity problem via a new unique username. Which can have the unique profile I need. But her blog is “owned” by my master account. I’m confused.
Her blog is AOK. Only issue is her unique profile.
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Wow – seems an endless loop. I still do not know how to make wife’s blog have a unique profile. By inviting her to be a user I have created an UNDEAD, an unwanted blog with her name. WordPress thinks that username is taken, but will not allow password reset because doesn’t recognize the username.
I transferred the UNDEAD blog to a new user different name. Now I have TWO UNDEAD blogs attached to my account.
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Any suggestions would be welcome. I don’t know know how to clean up the mess that I described above.
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Please do nothing more and simply wait for Staff help. I’ll tag this thread for their assistance with sorting this. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.
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By way of explanation you can read what follows while waiting.
Deleted blog URLs are not recycled.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
Once changed a username cannot be reverted and username accounts are not deleted.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/Every blog has a sole owner and it is the person with the username account who registered the blog under that username account and associated email address. When we register a username account the matching blog is reserved for our future use. That blog URL cannot be obtained by anyone other than the person who has registered the matching username account. No matter how many additional blogs are created under any username account, there will be only one gravatar and one primary blog that can be linked to that username account.
There is a means of transferring a blog to another username account.
Log out of WordPress.com and use another email address to create another new username account. Then use the process to transfer the blog(s) of your choice to that new username account.
adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-accountIn this case I think you will need Staff to do the sorting for you.
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