Posting comments on other blogs
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I’m blogging again after a couple of years of inactivity, and I’m finding that I have to log in with my password etc a lot when I try to post comments on an inlinkz link-up. This doesn’t occur with every post, but about 50% of the time – enough to be very annoying. I’ve participated in four linkups in the last month and it’s happened every time. How can I fix this please? It never used to happen before.
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Correct account: YesThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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There are several different sites – all of them are contributors to the weekly link-up hosted here: https://fresh.inlinkz.com/party/617a722d6654430f831eb2c64ed67951
I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you the specific ones that cause problems. It doesn’t seem to necessarily be the same ones each week. Sometimes I can go ahead and post a comment easily but with others I’m having to log in with my WordPress account, then get redirected to give a password – it says ‘the email you have given is being used by a website you are not logged into’ (or some similar message) and sometimes I have to go through the ‘human’ test (checking pictures of traffic lights etc).
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Hi @margirene,
Looking at
inlinkz.com, it appears that this is a third-party site that links bloggers in a webring. In this case, this service is not affiliated with WordPress.com, however I can see how it would bring you to other blogs that may be hosted here.If you could please share a specific example of a blog that you’re trying to comment on, we can see if it’s hosted with WordPress.com. If not, this might be the reason why you’re prompted to login/create an account on a third-party website.
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The above blog is actually the host of the linkup, and it’s one that I had to log into just last week to add a comment. When I was contributing regularly to this linkup a couple of years ago I know I didn’t have to go through this procedure to post a comment on this person’s post.
The two above also ask me to log in.
Thank you for helping.
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Hm, those are all WordPress.com sites, and neither require login to comment.
Would you please use https://snipboard.io to share a screenshot of the error you’re seeing?
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I’ve taken a screenshot and pasted it onto the shipboard screen. I think I did it twice actually. I hope you can see it there. Do you want me to also take a screenshot of what happens when I fill in those three items? I go to another page which is where I have to give my WordPress password.
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Could it be something to do with having changed my preferred email on WordPress? Is the gravatar email the same as my WordPress email address? I changed it a couple of years ago however, but as I said I have been inactive for a while.
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Hi there,
To see the screenshot you uploaded via Snipboard you would need to share the link (that they give you after you add your screenshot) with us.
Instead let me share with you a screenshot of what I see when I try to comment on https://annehiga.com/2022/01/26/6484/
One thing I noticed is that when I comment I appear to be recognized since I am logged in to my WordPress.com account at the moment. Do you see this as well or do you see something different when you try to leave a comment? Do you see something more like this?
Thanks for the additional info!
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Aha. Thanks Jerry. Yes, I see the second one. Sometimes I’m then able to post the comment (when I hit the ‘post comment’ button) but other times I’m redirected to another screen where I have to put in my password and go through the filtering process of proving I’m not a robot and checking the required segments of a photo.
Also, with some of the posts I comment on I go straight in as normal without any hindrances. It’s about 50/50 I think, but that’s just an estimate.
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Also, I’ve made sure I’m logged into my WordPress account when I comment, but it didn’t seem to make any difference. I’ve tried going in through the link on the host’s blog, and also through a link in my own blog post for that week. Same result either way.
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Are you using the same browser when you try to comment? For example, you seem to be using Safari now; are you just opening the site in another tab?
One other thing it could be, if the site doesn’t say “wordpress.com” in its address, Safari may not be recognizing your login. You might want to see if third-party cookies work for you still:
https://wordpress.com/support/third-party-cookies/#checking-your-browsers -
I’ve done it both ways. I’ve tried opening the site in another tab and I’ve also tried clicking in from a link to the link-up page that I’ve previously downloaded in my own post. I didn’t notice any difference either way. Either way I always use Safari.
I had a look at the third party cookies setup as you suggest but I can’t see anything there that would block me. I haven’t set it to prevent cookies. However I don’t really have sufficient tech skill to be sure that everything’s set up correctly in that area. When I clear my caches periodically, perhaps that’s a contributing factor, but again, it’s only some sites that give me problems.
I really appreciate all the help I’m receiving here. Thank you.
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Hi there,
If you’re using Safari, go to Preferences ->Privacy, and disable the option to Prevent Cross-site tracking. Does that help?
If so, the issue here is that that particular setting causes Safari to actively block us from detecting you’re logged in:
When you log into your WordPress.com account, we set a cookie for WordPress.com in your browser, that allows us to track your login across different sites. Which is why you won’t run into this issue on sites at an example.wordpress.com domain.
But the moment you visit a site on a custom domain, like rochellewisoff.com, the domain of the site and the domain of the WordPress.com cookie no longer matches. So even though rochellewisoff.com is hosted here on WordPress.com, the WordPress.com login cookie is now considered a third-party, or cross-site cookie. So if Safari is set to block cross-site tracking, that means we can’t detect that you’re already logged in when you get to that site, because Safari isn’t allowing our login cookie to do its job.
In many cases this is a good thing – cross-site cookies can be used to track you for more nefarious purposes as well, like collecting information about your online behaviour, so Safari is trying to protect your privacy here. But on platforms like WordPress.com where we rely on third party cookies for things to actually work the way it should, it can cause problems like what you’ve been experiencing.
Unfortunately Safari doesn’t give an option to whitelist/exclude individual sites from this blocking, so the only way to avoid this problem is to disable that feature entirely.
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Right. Thank you for that. I’ve just disabled ‘Prevent cross-site tracking’ as you suggest. It’s now very late at night and so tomorrow morning I’ll test it out again. That was a very helpful tip. Thank you very much.
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Belated thank you to all those who pointed me in the right direction. That last instruction did the trick. Everything is now set correctly and all is working well.
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