Two unrelated blogs via wordpress – same admin email address
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Hi,
I have been running a different WordPress blog for a long time – scienceofdoom.
I just started a new blog – politicsandlies. As you can see from this email I am logged in as scienceofdoom.
My first blog post (draft) is showing author = scienceofdoom
I want two separate blogs. They are completely different subjects. I don’t want to link them. When I went to create politicsandlies.com your user interface forced me to login with my scienceofdoom login because I gave my email address.
Before I get really started we might as well pick the best options –
1. Am I better off to delete the blog, go back to the start and provide a different email address and recreate the blog? (I want to keep the name “politicsandlies.com” so this will probably require admin work on your side).
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2. Is there no downside to having the same email for both blogs and all I need to do is use a different browser, logout from scienceofdoom and login as politicsandlies.
Thanks
SteveThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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In fact, I can’t even work out how to login as “politicsandlies” – it seems I am stuck with scienceofdoom as my login, which definitely doesn’t work.
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Hi Steve,
We normally recommend owning your multiple blogs under one user account just because it’s easier to manage both without having to logout/login each time. However the display name you set in your Public Profile will be the nickname that appears on all your blogs, so I can see where that is a concern for your situation.
If that display name is your primary concern, so that your readers will not see them as connected, what I would suggest is this:
- Create a new username without a blog here
- All user accounts on WordPress.com must have a unique email address, so you’ll need to use an email not being used by scienceofdoom
- Adjust the public profile for the new user to meet your needs on politicsandlies.com
- Login to WordPress.com as scienceofdoom, and invite your new user account as an Editor user for politicsandlies.com (How to invite users)
- Check the email of the new user, and accept the invitation.
Whenever you write posts for either blog, you can do so while logged in as scienceofdoom. However, on politicsandlies adjust the Author dropdown setting to your new user account (Example).
This gives you the advantage of only needing one administrator account to manage the site and its upgrades, but your readers will not know of any connection between the two sites at all.
Now, if you wish to disregard this and just manage two completely separate usernames for each blog, create the new user account in steps #1 – 3 above. Then follow this guide to transfer your blog ownership, content, and domain politicsandlies.com to the new username:
Let me know if you need help with either choice.
-Alex G.
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Alex,
Thanks very much for your full and prompt reply. That definitely makes everything clear and I tried to go ahead with the first option.
However, it hasn’t worked..
I logged out of wordpress, created my new username, ‘politicsandliesblog’ with a different email address.
I logged back into wordpress as scienceofdoom and invited politicsandliesblog as an administrator.
In my politicsandliesblog email I accepted the invitation.BUT – scienceofdoom doesn’t see any author options.
I go to ‘users’ (as scienceofdoom) and I only see one user, scienceofdoom.
So I tried the whole thing again, this time with politicsandliesblog as an editor.
Here is the email:
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scienceofdoom has invited you to edit Politics and Lies. As an editor you will be able to publish and edit any post, as well as moderate comments and generally make the site a better place.
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I ‘Accept’ the invitation (which clicks through to a new tab into a wordpress admin page).Same problem. There are no author options on my posts. When I click ‘Users’ there is only 1 user showing up, scienceofdoom.
Please let me know what I need to do to get my ‘politicsandliesblog’ user to be allowed to be an editor.
a. Do I have to log out of wordpress before clicking the ‘Accept’ button on my politicsandliesblog email?
b. Do I have to do something after clicking ‘Accept’? (It’s confusing because I am being taken back into the complete admin interface for wordpress with no obvious action to be taken’).
c. Something else?
Thanks
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Hi Steve,
In short, the answer here is your A option:
a. Do I have to log out of wordpress before clicking the ‘Accept’ button on my politicsandliesblog email?
It looks like you were logged in as scienceofdoom when clicking the Accept button meant for politicsandliesblog. WordPress didn’t know which one you were, so did nothing.
If you’ll login as politicsandliesblog, then click the Accept button in politicsandliesblog’s email, then the user should be added. You can also try copy+pasting the Accept link into your browser, that helps sometimes.
-Alex G.
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Alex,
Thanks. I did what you said and this time my Accept worked.
In “Users” I can now see both users.But there is no Author option on the sidebar as you show in your graphic.
What do I need to do to enable this? I have searched through the options and I cannot find anything.
Right now I cannot change the author of any post.
Thanks
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Hi Steve,
If you’re using our new editor, the Author setting is in the Advanced Settings:
If you’re using the /wp-admin/ post editor, first make sure “Author” is checked in the Screen Options (example.) Then the Author module looks like this.
So long as you’re a user with Editor or Administrator, all the blog’s users will appear as an option in the Author setting.
-Alex G.
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