Title: Password frustration! Last modified: November 10, 2016 --- # Password frustration! * Resolved [allaboutlightnz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allaboutlightnz/) * (@allaboutlightnz) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-frustration/) * Hi. Since updating to the latest version I seem to have issues logging into my WordPress account. I can access my dashboard at wp-admin/profile.php and have reset my password in the admin section here, but when trying to login to wordpress. org or wordpress.com with these credentials I constantly get an error the details are incorrect! Very frustrated at the moment as need to activate a plugin by logging in to my account again and cannot do this and cannot find a resolution anywhere in the support forums or online so far. I’m scared to close down my dashboard in case I can’t get back in and am currently editing my site. * Any ideas on what might be going on? I actually just registered an account with wordpress.org so that I could have access to the support forums, a different username and password to what my website account uses though. * Thanks. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-frustration/#post-8421518) * 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](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_vs_WordPress.com) * [Moondrop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moondrop/) * (@moondrop) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-frustration/#post-8421527) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moondrop/). * Thread Starter [allaboutlightnz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allaboutlightnz/) * (@allaboutlightnz) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-frustration/#post-8421544) * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-frustration/#post-8421580) * 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/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allaboutlightnz/) * (@allaboutlightnz) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-frustration/#post-8421593) * Fantastic that clears it up for me, thank you very much, appreciate the feedback/ advice 🙂 Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Password frustration!’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [credentials](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/credentials/) * [login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/login/) * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [allaboutlightnz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allaboutlightnz/) * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-frustration/#post-8421593) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics