Two Passwords/ One Username

Resolved casey.rotach@gmail.com
(@caseyrotachgmailcom)

12 years, 11 months ago

This has been absolutely killing me lately so any help would be so appreciated. I run a wordpress.org website and a wordpress.com blog which, both use the same username. For some reason, safari will not let me log in to my .org website because when I sign in the page just goes white. Therefore, I would like to attempt to try it in Mozilla. Except there is a problem, I do not know the password for my .org site because it has just been saved into my password box (only on safari).

So, of course I try to recover my password for the .org website but unfortunately the only password I keep getting is for .com blog and not the .org. Because they both share the same username it keeps only sending me a reset password for the wrong site.

Which, brings me to my last attempt. Being on the log in page for my.org website I try password recover and each time it says an email confirmation will be sent to my email…. it has yet to come. I have tried several times but when using my .org sign in page’s password recovery it never sends the email!

I desperately need to get on my website and get some work done but can not figure this out! Please helppppp

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Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
(@ipstenu)

🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

12 years, 11 months ago

WordPress.com blogs and WordPress.org self hosted blogs have nothing to do with each other.

There is no connection between the two. The information is not shared at all, ever.

If you want your .org email reset, go to yourdomain.com/wp-login.php and click on the recover password link.

David Sader
(@dsader)

12 years, 11 months ago

“no connection between the two”

Well, it is routine now to advise all users of my network to also become member of wordpress.com and thereby use it as an “Account hub for all Automattic services”.

Just today I was supporting users that were a bit buffaloed at the differing usernames/passwords they had to recover for Jetpack, gravatar, akismet, polldaddy on our self-hosted “.org” blog.

Jetpack is increasing popular(and has an array of awesome bells and whistles). Whereas I would have hesitated to tie blogs to wordpress.com before, I heartily recommend it now.

Anyway, not receiving an email from a server you manage? Bust into your db with phpmyadmin to recover your password.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin

Moderator Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)

Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

12 years, 11 months ago

Bust into your db with phpmyadmin to recover your password.

You could but that sometimes is cumbersome to some users poking at mysql that way.

If you can get file level access via FTP or whatever filemanagement tools your host has provided you with then give this method a try.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_FTP

You’ll need to get the correct user ID (if it’s not 1) and make sure you make a backup copy of whatever file you edit first.

Thread Starter casey.rotach@gmail.com
(@caseyrotachgmailcom)

12 years, 11 months ago

I got it all figured out now! Thank you everyone!

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