WHY
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SOMEONE ELSE’S ACCOUNT IS ON MY ACCOUNT
Blog url: http://ldelling2012.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there, it looks like you were added to a blog where you should not be a user. We are looking into fixing this and apologize for the inconvenience in the meantime!
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@jenia- Aren’t users who are invited to join a site supposed to get a confirmation email that they have to reply to?
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The documents just show I can misspell someone’s name and add them to as a user and they don’t need to do anything but show up and start to do strange things – given how bad my spelling is that is a bit of a scary thought and a bit contrary to the normal WordPress.COM do some checking along the line to make sure that is what is really supposed to happen –
As of July 16, 2012 or so:
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@auxclass- I believe that’s why the confirmation email was added. I know that when I tested my demo site by inviting myself under a different user account I own, I had to accept the invite to be a user on my demo site. Now that I think about that, I didn’t try to log into the site before accepting the invitation. Hm….
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@justjennifer: the above was a strange glitch that I could not reproduce.
The expected behavior is that users invited as followers get a notification email and once they confirm, they are subscribed to a blog, rather than added to it with an “actual” user role. Users invited as other roles also get a notification email where they have to click on “confirm” before they actually join the blog. If you are logged in under a different account than what the invite is sent for, you should receive an “oops” error message when you click “Accept”. If you don’t, please let me know which blog it happens on, with as much reproducible details as possible ;) and I’ll have a look.
@auxclass: thanks for the feedback, do you have any suggestions on what a check would look like? What you could do is copy-paste someone’s username or email address to make sure you are adding the right person to your blog, and of course, you can choose which role you have add them with (start with “Contributor” to minimize the risk, and then you can always “promote” them) and you can also review/edit the users on your blog under Users.
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Users invited as other roles also get a notification email where they have to click on “confirm” before they actually join the blog.
@jenia- That’s actually what I meant. :)
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