Login now has two different ID's

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  morganfwp · Member · Aug 9, 2011 at 4:28 am

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  I am currently able to log in fine to my blogs. No problem there.

  Today I visited a friend’s blog, and when I tried to add a comment there I was asked to log in via WordPress. But my usual ID/password was not accepted. So after several attempts, out of frustration I clicked “Lost your password?”. A few minutes later a message arrives in my email box, to enable me to reset my password.

  BUT – this message shows a different ID (let’s say my usual ID is “mickf”, and this message shows “mickfraser123”). Why would a message come to MY mailbox with a different ID?

  Anyway, I click the Reset Password link in the message, which takes me to a log-in page showing this new ID. I re-enter my usual password and it is accepted.

  So the situation now is that I can still login to my blogs in the old way. But to log in via WordPress from my friend’s blog, or directly from wordpress.com, I have to use this new ID plus my old password.

  How can I kill off “mickfraser123” and reinstate “mickf” for ALL my WordPress activities?

  Thanks for any advice (the WP suppport team is away till August 15).

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 9, 2011 at 5:10 am

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  Well, you might have two different accounts here, but I don’t seem much of a connection between the two.

  Do you have maybe a self-hosted WordPress(.org) blog that uses mickf? If so, that would explain why you can’t login with that here, as WordPress.com and WordPress.org are entirely separate: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/