Login credentials
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For some reason I can access [mydomain].com/admin while logged into the correct account, but those same credentials do not work to log in to the main WordPress.com site. Is there a reason for this?
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OK, so those login credentials are (I think) for WordPress.org which I use to update my site. So what is my login for WordPress.com?
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I am confused about what WordPress.com does. I have a paid account with a different web hosting company and in their records I have WordPress.com listed as the DNS provider. I thought that was because I use WordPress as an interface to update my site, but I am realizing that I really use WordPress.org for this. So what is WordPress.com doing exactly? Is there a reason I have my site here instead of my paid webhost?
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Hi there,
I’ve merged your other thread into this one, as they’re related.
For some reason I can access [mydomain].com/admin while logged into the correct account, but those same credentials do not work to log in to the main WordPress.com site. Is there a reason for this?
The admin account for your site, and your username account here on WordPress.com, are two completely different and separate accounts. The admin user account on your site was created when you installed WordPress on your server at your hosting provider, and is completely unique to that specific site. The login credentials for that account are stored in your site database on your host’s servers.
A WordPress.com username account is what you use to log into WordPress.com – a hosting company where anyone can create their own website for free using our modified version of WordPress. You used to have a site hosted with us, but it was deleted several years ago.
OK, so those login credentials are (I think) for WordPress.org which I use to update my site. So what is my login for WordPress.com?
A WordPress.org username account is yet another completely separate account, which you’d use to log into WordPress.org in order to post in their support forums or contribute code to WordPress. You don’t need a WordPress.org account in order to use that software – you only need the admin account for your site.
The only one of these credentials we control is your WordPress.com account’s. You can see your username below your profile picture above,
wendywisner, and you can see the email address associated with your account on the account settings page at https://wordpress.com/me/accountThose may be the same as your site’s admin user account, and even your WordPress.org account if you have one, but that would be purely coincidental. The accounts are not linked in any way.
I am confused about what WordPress.com does. I have a paid account with a different web hosting company and in their records I have WordPress.com listed as the DNS provider. I thought that was because I use WordPress as an interface to update my site, but I am realizing that I really use WordPress.org for this. So what is WordPress.com doing exactly? Is there a reason I have my site here instead of my paid webhost?
WordPress.com is a hosting and domain provider, but you don’t currently have any sites hosted or domains registered with us.
You also need a WordPress.com username account to use a Gravatar image on your site, use the Akismet anti-spam plugin, log into WooCommerce.com, or to use the Jetpack plugin – Jetpack can be used to connect your self-hosted WordPress site to your WordPress.com account so you can manage it through this account, but at the moment you don’t have any sites connected to us via Jetpack either.
I hope that clears things up, but let me know if you have any other questions.
Regarding the DNS issue I’ll reply to your other thread at https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/update-mx-records-5/
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