My WordPress linux app is acting different
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Yesterday it worked like usual. Today I launched it and it was showing a feed of one of the tags I follow and I was signed out.
When I clicked sign in the app took me to wordpress.com in the browser.
Should I be worried? Should I just log right back in?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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That is odd. If you don’t have any drafts in there that need synching, would you mind trying to reinstall it to see if that helps? I’m not using Linux on this system, but the app shouldn’t be doing that as far as I can tell from looking at recent notes.
Also, did this start after an update? Maybe some context will help.
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It’s a mess. I logged into my admin account on Ubuntu and tried to reinstall the WordPress.com. I didn’t let me but I did see a login screen on the app when I launched it again.
When I went back to my standard account, where I was signed into the app, it shows the same thing that I shared above.
I think I should change my password since I had a phone with the WordPress app on it and I haven’t changed my password since then.
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Hi there,
Try removing the app authorization from your WordPress.com account by going to https://wordpress.com/me/security/connected-applications
Then install the app and try logging in. This usually resovles that issue.
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Hi, fstat. I can try that. You mean my account/desktop app isn’t compromised? That’s what I feared.
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… And I can’t seem to uninstall the app in the first place. I tried with the Ubuntu Software Center. I’m wondering if I’ve been cracked.
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Also (sorry to flood with questions) but what’s happening when you try to uninstall or reinstall at this point? If you’re getting an errors, can you send those?
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macmanx: the .deb version
supernovia: Ubuntu Software center just won’t let me uninstall. I suppose I can try in command line using “sudo apt remove wordpress”
I’m not getting an error. -
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Here’s what I got:
me@user-thinkpad:~$ sudo apt remove wordpress
[sudo] password for me:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package ‘wordpress’ is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.# And fstat, I removed the app authorization from my WordPress.com account
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If you attempt to reinstall it, what happens? You mentioned it didn’t let you, but I don’t think we’ve got the error. Sorry it’s tricky to figure this out when we can’t duplicate it. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
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supernovia: Did you mean an update to the app or my OS? There was no update to the app but I may have updated my OS.
As far as uninstalling the app, I go to the Ubuntu Software Center, see my apps, click on remove next to WordPress and it just blinks and still says remove.
Here’s a issue I opened on Github.
I don’t understand what was suggested. I’m not sure what to delete.
Someone there said:
“… We don’t yet have a solution for the underlying problem, but you should be able to resolve it by removing the app’s supporting files. On Linux, this should be at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Wordpress.com or ~/.config/Wordpress.com…” -
Make sure to quit the app, if it is running.
Press Ctrl Alt T to open a new terminal window
Paste exactly this:rm -rf ~/.config/WordPress.com
Re-launch the app and it should be reset to the login screen.Side note: this is for the .deb installed WordPress app from https://apps.wordpress.com/desktop/ NOT the snapcrafters WordPress app from the Ubuntu Store.
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Thank you all so much. macmanx, that worked.
Here’s a quote from a issue for this on Github just for posterity:
…to avoid being stuck in the Tag view, they go to My Sites in the app before quitting the app. I was able to successfully reopen the app when I tested that flow.
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