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  alazmerl · Member · Oct 23, 2010 at 5:33 pm

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  i have set my wordpress blog as my home page. when i open IE up comes my blog. How do I log in to add or make changes?? is there something on the page to let me log in – other than the create a new blog route??

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 23, 2010 at 7:51 pm

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  If you aren’t logged in, you should see a log in box (Enter your username/password) in the gray Admin Bar at the top of the page.

  If you are already logged in, in the Admin Bar you should see “My Account”, “My Blog”, “My Subscriptions”, etc. along the top. Click on “My Blog” to get to your Dashboard or hover your mouse pointer on “My Blog” and you should then see a set of sub-menus (Dashboard, New Post, etc.).

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  alazmerl · Member · Oct 24, 2010 at 9:11 pm

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  thank you justjennifer. I am not logged in and have checked my page from top to bottom. there is no login box?? well not that i can see. any suggestions??

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 24, 2010 at 9:21 pm

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  Your login on your blog is at http://blogname.wordpress.com/wp-login.php

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 25, 2010 at 6:28 am

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  Helpful screenshot of the Log-in box on the WordPress.com Homepage

  You mention IE. Hopefully you mean IE 8. If not, please update your browser or better still download and use Firefox from Mozilla.

  You can use the link example that tsp has mentioned, but I would make one small change so that you are logging in securely and that is change http to https

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  alazmerl · Member · Nov 18, 2010 at 11:00 am

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  thanks ok thesacredpath’s suggestion gets me a login page – but when my homepage appears it doesn’t have a grey bar accross the top of the page. I have to go to a separate login page. maybe I am expecting something i shouldn’t be expecting???

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  timethief · Member · Nov 18, 2010 at 4:39 pm

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  @alazmerl
  Hi there. Will you please take a screenshot for us and then post a link to it.

  Take a Screenshot

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  alazmerl · Member · Nov 19, 2010 at 10:13 am

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  OK i took a picture but where do I place the screen shot so that i can then post a link?? Can you just look at my blog??
  alazmerl.wordpress.com

  any help in locating where the login appears would be good – i am using the latest firefox
  alazmer

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  tandava108 · Member · Nov 19, 2010 at 12:13 pm

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  If you are not logged in and never have you don’t get the grey bar at the top of your home page, you need to log in as TSP says (or from the https://wordpress.com/ home page). I think WordPress must set some cookie to say that you area a user after your first login and then display the bar if you need to log in again.

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  alazmerl · Member · Nov 21, 2010 at 9:57 am

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  Yes i usually login from the page TSP suggested because i don’t have a grey login bar on top of my page. I have logged in countless times – and at last have set up my blog site in a usable manner – took a while but i am now happy with the setup – and just dont understand the login process??
  alaz