WP Admin access
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Hi there,
When I access WordPress from the website WP Admin does not show up between ‘View Site’ and ‘Stats’. I had another WordPress account where this was shown. My partner also uses WordPress and this option is visible on her account. Is there an option that I need to enable or has something gone wrong with access on my account? It is very frustrating because I feel I do not have full access to my blog.
Thank you in advance.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The Admin login link is always
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I had exactly the same problem – I teach students to use WordPress for blogging and overnight the ‘wp-admin’ text disappeared, making it really counter-intuitive to access the dashboard. As timetheif says the only way to get to it now seems to be to type ‘wp-admin’ in explicitly in the address bar. Annoying!
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I agree, this feature has disappeared for students over the last few days, I am fielding phone calls about it
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Timethief, I believe we’re talking about the WP Admin link that used to allow us to access the old (far more functional) “charcoal sidebar” dashboard. I too teach WordPress and could not be more unhappy with all the “improvements” that have gradually devolved WP admin functions to the “new blue dashboard” this year. Last semester’s class I was at least able to show students how to access the old (charcoal sidebar) WP Dashboard (through several clicks), but now that that workaround has disappeared, we’re stuck with the dumbed-down blue dashboard. Every student hates it, complaints mainly focus around loss of control / functions / multiple clicks to accomplish tasks that used to be easy. Today’s (three) cases in point: we can’t access all blog posts / the overview list to make quick edits. We can’t locate Blog Categories. We can’t find Links. Dear WordPress: we don’t need pretty, we don’t need cutesy (“beep beep boop”), we need functionality.
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@slugbagc
Where is the link to your wordpress.COM hosted blog? Please post it here.Perhaps teaching your students what the Admin login link is for every blog here would be a better plan than relying on links that can and may be removed.
The Admin login link is always
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@massagesseattle
I don’t know what you are referring to because I have blogged here for nearly 10 years and I know what the login link is for every blog here. The Admin login link is always
https://NAME_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/You and your students must be using the new Beep Beep Boop editor which I do not use. As for being unhappy about the development of the new user interface you are not alone but there will be no rollback. https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/dashboard-update/
You cannot deactivate the new Beep Beep Boop editor but you do not have to use it. For locating the ways and means of accessing the legacy or classic pages for creating posts, editing posts, and for viewing stats see here > Navigating the Classic WordPress.COM interface http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2015/04/05/navigating-the-classic-wordpress-com-interface/
On the dashboard of your own blog at
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts > Add New
To create posts in the classic editor for you that link ishttp://seattlemassagejobsdotcom.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
On the dashboard of your own blog at
Dashboard > Posts > All Posts one can hover over any post title and click the Edit link. and proceed with editing.http://seattlemassagejobsdotcom.wordpress.com//wp-admin/edit.php
If you have cookies enabled on your browser your preference will be saved unless or until your clear your cookies, and it will take you to the classic editor automatically every time you create a new post via the drop-down menu in the black admin bar or edit a post via the edit button on the blog itself.
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Hi timethief
I fully understand what you are saying, todays point of shock as it occurred was most odd.
most students tend to go to wordpress.com > then log in > this takes them to the reader.
they then go to “my sites”
it then started to go bit odd, meaning, that some students had on the left in descending order
switch site – view site – wp admin – stats
and some students had
switch site – view site – stats
I saw it myself, and it is most odd. (after the phone calls started of course). I of course told them to add the wp-admin after their site URL as a work around whilst i investigated what was going on
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Thanks Timethief!
(I’ve only blogged since 2007) :-)This was not about logging in, though if I understand you correctly, we must also use special URLs in order to access the old WP dashboard now. I’ll bookmark these and add them to my class handouts.
I very much appreciate those as well as the link to the outside site.
Sad to hear about no rollback… WP used to feel so clean and strong and straightforward…! :-
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Here’s an updated link: https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/navigating-the-classic-wordpress-com-interface/
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@danhodge
Thanks for your explanation. I refuse to jump the hoops that have been put in our way.I go directly to my own login link https://NAME_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ and that’s because I don’t think wp.com is actually needy of a page view stat from me just for logging in at the main link. In fact I think we bloggers all ought to be logging in directly to our own Admin pages on our own blogs.
I can access my stats from my blog too at this link https://wordpress.com/my-stats/ so that’s what I do too.
As for the Reader, please don’t get me started on it and how it is designed to function.
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Sad to hear about no rollback… WP used to feel so clean and strong and straightforward…! :-
Sigh … that’s a subject I prefer not to comment on. WordPress.COM was once a clean elegant and easy to use site. That’s not the case now.
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I’m another WordPress.com teacher who got burned by the latest move in the effort to cut everyone off from the traditional editor.
Because WP.com has been fiddling around with the signup format, before a new session starts, I always check in advance to make sure there were no unannounced changes. I didn’t notice anything yesterday, but as soon as my new students started opening their new WP.com accounts today, I started hearing about the the disappearing WP Admin link.
I do instruct my students to use the /wp-admin login to avoid “Beep Beep Boop.” But because they’re going from the WP.com site to their own admin areas after the signup, the instructions were to click the WP Admin link that had been in the sidebar.
What is this compunction to do so much changing? Why does every change make it harder to access the traditional editor? And why are these little tweaks never announced?
Over the last five years, I’ve taught WordPress.com to more than 20,000 people. I used to be proud of this platform. Now it’s becoming an embarrassment.
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Thank you so much Timethief. I thought I was losing my mind. I’m new to WordPress but the new editor sucks completely – and doesn’t give me access to all the features in my template!
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