Reconnecting with LinkedIn

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  hermanvanbonphotography · Member · Apr 8, 2015 at 3:18 pm

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  Followed all the steps in your support documentation but this is the message I repeatedly received after several attempts to reconnect with LinkedIn:

  ‘There was a problem creating your connection. Please go back and try again.’

  How are you going to solve this problem?

  I’m curious.

  Greetings from a wonderful village in South Africa

  Herman

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Apr 8, 2015 at 4:55 pm

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  Hi Herman,

  At what step do you receive this error? After logging in with LinkedIn, do you receive this step:

  

  Or does the error pop up before that?

  Also, could you let me know if you were connected at this page:

  wordpress.com/sharing

  Or in your /wp-admin/ sharing settings?

  -Alex G.

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  hermanvanbonphotography · Member · Apr 8, 2015 at 6:11 pm

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  Hi Alex

  This is the message I get on a blank page: “There was a problem creating your connection. Please go back and try again.”

  And this is the URL: https://public-api.wordpress.com/connect/?magic=keyring&action=verify&kr_nonce=f94e554d11&nonce=74e9a4de95&service=linkedin&state=20403216&oauth_token=75–f483d17f-e813-4be0-a6c2-2d7025cf6d8c&oauth_verifier=06412

  Both ways I tried: while writing a posting the message came up (right column) to reconnect with LinkedIn so I clicked the button.
  And secondly I (also repeatedly) I went via the sharing settings with the same result.

  BTW thanks for quick reply!!! Much appreciated.

  Herman

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Apr 8, 2015 at 7:15 pm

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  Hi Herman,

  Can you try something on the LinkedIn end for me?

  Visit the “Manage Privacy and Settings” page on LinkedIn here:

  https://www.linkedin.com/settings/?trk=nav_account_sub_nav_settings

  Near the bottom, click on Groups, Companies & Applications. (Looks like this)

  Then click “View Your Applications”

  Do you see WordPress.com listed there? If so, remove it. Then try out the connection again from WordPress.com.

  -Alex G.

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  hermanvanbonphotography · Member · Apr 9, 2015 at 5:36 am

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  Thank you Alex!!!

  It works!!!!

  Happy again :D .

  Herman