Two Blogs, One User!
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@marymusin
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/17/how-do-i-add-more-authors-users-to-my-blog/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/what-are-the-different-roles/
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engtech & timethief,
That’s useful but not what I am asking.
I have one account with three blogs. When I post a comment on someone else’s blog, I want to be able to have people go to my choice of the three blogs depending on what I am posting about. As it is now, the nickname on my primary blog always appears and so all my posts are connected to that blog if someone clicks through.
I understood that to correct this I need to have my blogs on different accounts, and thus was asking about transferring. I now want to create two more accounts and transfer 2 of my blogs to those accounts (one each).
I also want to retain the domain name associated with those blogs, and my question is when I transfer the blogs, can I also transfer their domain names into the new accounts?
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This is hard to explain so it may take more than one post to do it. You can register two more usernames with 2 more email addresses. Using your current username1 you can then assign yourself under username2 as an Administrator to blog2 under email address2. Using your current username1 you can then assign yourself as an Administrator on blog 3 under username3 with emailaddress3. As username2 from email address 2 you can sign in and delete username1 as an Administrator. As username3 from email address3 you can sign in and delete username1 as an Administrator. Do you follow so far? None of the blog names/urls have changed. Transferring does not enter this picture.
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Don’t do this right away just read it and be sure you understand it before you act.
1. go to that dashboard > options > privacy
and make the blog private. (this is temporary).
2. log out of wordpress.com
3. sign up for wordpress.com using a different email address, and using a new username that is not the same as any of your blog names. Do not create a blog, just a username.
4. after you finish responding to all the confirmation emails and whatnot, log out of wordpress.com
5. log in as your original username (username1), and go to your private blog’s dashboard > users.
6. add your newly created user (username2) as an administrator
7. log out, and log in as your new user
8. go to dashboard > users.
9. delete your original username1 from the blog.
10. go to options > privacy, and make the blog public again.It’s important to understand that when you sign in as username1 or 2 or 3 and leave a comment on any blog that email address that you registered 1, 2, 3 will be known to the blogger on whose blog post you have commented. Therefore it will be up to you to be careful about which username you sign in with every time you log-in.
Hopefully you will understand these instructions. If not, please post again and another blogger will take a run at explaining. :)
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G’morning marymusin
Post#1 – Explanatory Post
The intention was to give you a general overview and understanding. The username you have registered with and the email address you used to register will appear whenever you sign in to wp and leave a comment, regardless of whatever “nickname” you may use internally to post into the blogs you acquired under that original username.
Therefore, if you wish to have more than one “persona” then you must register the additional persona(s) with wordpress and use a different email addresses to register each new persona in order to prevent the first username and email address from appearing.
As you already have established more than one blog in that original username as an Adminitstrator of all of those blogs, and if you wish not to have that original username and original email address associated with one or more of those additional blogs the first step is to must register additional personas with different email addresses.
The second step is under your original username you can register your second persona as an Administrator on a specific blog too.
The third step, after that has been accomplished is that the second persona can delete the first (original) username persona as an Administrator for that particular blog.
Thereafter you must be cautious to login in wp under the username (persona – Administrator) associated with the specific blog you have set it up for.Post#2 – Instructional Post
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Hi timethief (seems like saying “@timethief” would be a way of directing it to you also?)
Great — this helps. Do I make all three blogs private, to start the process, or one at a time as I am changing them?
In other words —
Blog1, my primary blog, will maintain the original username. First I’d change Blog 2. Is it Blog2 that I make private during the process of changing it? (And then I would make Blog3 private when I’m going to change that?) Do I ever need to make Blog1 private?
Hopefully this one last bit of information will be all I need to go ahead!
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@marymusin
Actually you can use this process without marking any of the blogs private. That being said, it’s my experience that things can go wrong so I do mark the ones I’m changing “private,” until until the entire process from beginning to end is proven to be successful, and the new persona has published a post.
HTH :)
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@timethief
Thank you, thank you. It worked! Only one minor glitch — for some reason WordPress does not “remember me” for one of the new usernames. It remembers the 2 others and so I’ve been able to set it up to log in easily to each of them with a link in my toolbar, but with one of the new ones, it isn’t remembered and I am unable to create that link. -
Oh dear it sounds like a problem for staff to sort so you’ll have to send in a feedback.
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It feels so good when the advice I give helps someone – it’s a natural high. So thanks for the thanks and happy blogging. :)
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I managed to mess up in a different way – I created a user account on WordPress.com, with an API key. Then I ‘registered’ my new blog under that account.
Activating Akismet, I needed an API key for which I needed an account, so I created a second account and registered Aksimet with it.
Now that I’m installing ‘Automattic Stats’, I have to enter my API key again – however, it only accepts the key of the original account.So, I want to remove my blog (which is hosted on its own domain) from the original accountuser to the new one. I found this ‘answer’: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/22/how-do-i-transfer-a-blog-to-someone-else-another-name/, but I can’t find the ‘invite’ optionbutton…
If I add a new user (in the blog dashboard) and make him the admin, I can remove the original admin – but that doesn’t make sense, as the original admin has an email address that is related to the blog (domain) while the new user would have a ‘private’ address.
I know I messed up, but I hope you can help me out. Thanks!
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If I add a new user (in the blog dashboard) and make him the admin, I can remove the original admin – but that doesn’t make sense, as the original admin has an email address that is related to the blog (domain) while the new user would have a ‘private’ address.
What do you mean by “private address”? I think you may be over-analyzing this at this point. Just do what you said above, and everything should be okay; people do it all the time.
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Thanks Judy.
(forget about the email thing – I can update that later, after adding the new user – overlooked it, thought it was fixed, like the user-name)
Here’s the mess up: trying to install that Stats plugin on the blog, it gives an error: I’m using the wrong API – it says to log in with the account the blog was registered under and at the bottom of the ‘blog stats’ page (in the global dashb, I can add the user (admin, I suppose) of that blog that wants to register the plug in.
However, on the stats page in the original account, there is no add nor invite option: so, they tell me to use something that is not there….. my blog is WP 2.2 (updated last week), the account was created 3 weeks ago.
Also, now it appears that for watching the stats, one has to log in into the original account? You can’t see them directly when signed in as admin on your blog?
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Ahhh. That stats question has come up before. I think you will need to contact staff directly by emailing support[at]wordpress.com Make sure you give them all the pertinent info.
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Make sure that the email address you have for the admin of your 2.2 blog matchs the one you used to create your account here. I think that’s what it’s based on.
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