Well, the reason for that is the fact that wordpress.org is one website, from where you can download actual WP installation, and your website running WP is another thing completely, with different user/pass combination (hopefully).
If you want to login to your own website, it is located at www.yoursite.com/wp-login.php
Hello Emily,
Can you tell me what is the url(domain name) of your website? As far as I can understand from your question is that you are trying to login to wordpress.org, which leads you to the download WordPress page. Please correct me if I’m getting your question wrong.
You can go to your website dashboard using yourdomainname/wp-admin enter your username and password there or please check if you created your website using wordpress.com, you can go to https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php.
Hope that helps!
Tsentan,
Thank you for your help! My domain name is Emilymaephotography.com
I went to the page you told me and I get this error message when I can’t logon with my information and try to recover my password.
“ERROR: There is no user registered with that email address.”
I have had this happen a number of times and it doesn’t want to recognize my email, I’m positive this is the email I have been using.
Lastly, I had a wordpress.com at one point years ago and inactivated it but my new current website is with wordpress.org. could this be were some of the cross over confusion is coming from. Hope this makes sense.
I will suggest you to follow this link and check the email ID again and maybe reset the password and email ID both: https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin
