Password frustration!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Your site is entirely self-contained, it’s not connected to the user system at WordPress.com or here at WordPress.org in any way. They’re effectively 3 separate accounts.

    Also, to clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_vs_WordPress.com

    Moondrop

    (@moondrop)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hi allaboutlightnz, as James Huff mentioned, your login details for your wordpress.org and your wordpress.com account are different logins as they are separate websites.

    What you can do to try to reset your password:

    1. Open a new browser. One where you are not logged in to your dashboard. So if you are logged into your website on Chrome, open Firefox or Internet Explorer, etc.
    2. Go to your website’s login form page.
    3. At the bottom of the login form is a “Lost your password?” link. Click it and reset your password to your account.
    4. Check your email and follow the password reset instructions.

    This way you can be sure you are logging into the the correct site with the right username and password. The password reset email will contain all those details.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by Moondrop.
    Thread Starter allaboutlightnz

    (@allaboutlightnz)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for your replies! Good to know they are definitely all seperate. I guess my issue is that when trying to activate Jetpback it takes me to the wordpress login where my dashboard credentials don’t work..so am I supposed to register a new account here?

    Changing my password isn’t a problem as I have dashboard access..

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Jetpack is asking for a WordPress.com account, which as mentioned, is completely separate from how you log in to your WordPress site.

    Since Jetpack brings WordPress.com features to your self-hosted WordPress.org site, it requires a WordPress.com account, much like how a plugin which brought Facebook features to your site would require a Facebook account.

    Are you able to log in at https://wordpress.com/ ? If not, you can register for a WordPress.com account so you can use Jetpack via the “Need an Account?” link during Jetpack’s connection process.

    Almost all of Jetpack’s features make use of heavy processing power (Photon the image CDN, related posts indexing), heavy database usage (stats), or require connections to third-party systems that can be very complicated to setup by yourself (Publicize’s automated sharing to social networks, email subscriptions, etc).

    It takes care of that all on WordPress.com’s server cluster so your hosting provider doesn’t suspend you for using excessive resources.

    In order to do any of that, it needs a WordPress.com account.

    Thread Starter allaboutlightnz

    (@allaboutlightnz)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Fantastic that clears it up for me, thank you very much, appreciate the feedback/advice 🙂

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