Sign in process totally chaotic

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  vdeegan1 · Member · Aug 7, 2013 at 7:06 am

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  I’m trying to sign in to WordPress.com with any of the various usernames I created in the past, and am using the original passwords that went with each of them. But, only one of them is recognized. I tried resetting the password for several of the usernames, went through the email confirmation for each one, and still nothing. WordPress.com can’t even remember the password change I did seconds before. What the heck is going on with WordPress.

  My attempt is to make a temporary blog under wordpress.com with intents to later register a unique domain name for it. I.e. One of the temporary blogs I created was called vscb1.wordpress.com … but, when I go to WordPress.com and try to sign in with the original username and password for vsbc1, it doesn’t know what I’m talking about.

  Another issue is that, even though I can go to the actual URL vscb1.wordpress.com and access it like any public visitor, I still can’t login to the site using /wpadmin. So, how do I sign in to my website to make changes? When I sign on to any of my other sites that have a registered domain name, signing on is a breeze when using /wpadmin, but not when using the wordpress.com domain.

  Thanks for any help.
  Vince Deegan

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  supportbot · Member · Aug 7, 2013 at 7:06 am

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 7, 2013 at 7:12 am

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  If it helps, it’s /wp-admin with the hyphen.

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  vdeegan1 · Member · Aug 7, 2013 at 7:23 am

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  I think a human needs to read my post since most of the bot’s questions are answered in there. But, regarding the prompt asking for my link, I couldn’t provide it since it wasn’t in its selection list. I know that my blog vscb1.wordpress.com is known by wordpress.com, so why it wasn’t in the selection list is beyond me. Regarding specifying a reason for the post ???, the title and post itself are giving the reason.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 7, 2013 at 7:33 am

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  We also need each of the URLs you are talking about, starting with http.

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  vdeegan1 · Member · Aug 7, 2013 at 7:38 am

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  raincoaster,
  Thank you so much. That certainly answered one of my questions. Sorry about my memory lapse.
  While I have you though, after I tried the /wp-admin, it attempted to sign me in, but came up with the following:

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  vscb1.wordpress.com doesn’t exist

  Did you mean to visit any of these blogs, instead of vscb1.wordpress.com?

  vsbc1.wordpress.com — Victor Street Bible Chapel

  Do you want to register vscb1.wordpress.com? “

  I didn’t mean for the page title to get automatically added to the URL like that. Plus, the big long hyphen and the page title with spaces and no underscores or periods sure doesn’t look like URL syntax to me. Do you know why that would’ve happened?
  Thanks.
  Vince

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 7, 2013 at 8:56 am

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  We need the actual URLs of each of the blogs, starting with http.

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  vdeegan1 · Member · Aug 8, 2013 at 8:05 am

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  I did give the URL. With the “http”, it’s http://vscb1.wordpress.com. If there was anything else automatically added to the URL after that, I wouldn’t know.

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  justjennifer · Member · Aug 8, 2013 at 8:19 am

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  vsbc1.wordpress.com (note: V S B C 1) does exist

  versus

  vscb1.wordpress.com (note: V S C B 1) does not exist

  Is it the first one or not?