My blog stopped recognizing me
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I was looking at my WordPress.com stats, and I realized that it was tracking my own visits to my pages. Also, when I go to one of my pages, I’m treated as a visitor, not the creator — that is, I’m not offered the option to edit the page, etc.
Oddly, WordPress still recognizes me in some ways — it lets me log in, and knows which blogs I own.
This change must be very recent. The only thing I can think of that might be related is that I “upgraded” to Firefox 29, and that seems to have done something weird to my cookies.
I’d appreciate any suggestions as to how I can get WordPress to recognized me again. My blog is actually my work web site, so my job depends on this. Thanks!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I’m still seeing this account as being listed as the owner and sole administrator of ericalbert.com. So it doesn’t appear that anything is amiss from this end.
Might I suggest using Chrome or Safari for a bit and seeing if the issue replicates itself there? If it does, then perhaps Firefox is the culprit. If not, then perhaps something else is the source.
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I’ve just tried Chrome, and the “edit” button works fine there. So I’d guess it happened when I upgraded to Firefox 29. My preferred browser is Firefox, and I’d like to stick with it. What can I do?
I’ve already cleared the browser cache, removed the WordPress cookies, told Firefox to accept third-party cookies, and tried running Firefox in “safe” mode (which didn’t help).
What else can I try? Thanks!
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Hmmmm, this is very odd. My confusion is compounded by the fact that I am using Firefox 29 as I type this and I have not experienced any of the issues you are describing. Now, I am on a Apple computer, so the browsers are not going to be exactly the same.
I assume that you have tried logging out and back in again. Were you logged out when you cleared cookies/cache?
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OK, it’s working now. I tried so many things, I’m not sure what fixed it, but, if I had to guess, it was (once again) deleting all WordPress cookies and exceptions from Firefox /Tools/Options/Privacy, then setting Firefox to be wide open (/Tools/Options/Privacy History = “Remember history”), then logging in to WordPress. Once me “Edit” button returned, I went back to Firefox and closed down privacy again — I don’t think it’s wise to surf the net accepting everything that sites dump onto your computer.
Thanks for your suggestions!
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