Mengdi Gao
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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Failed to change E-mailIn the future, don’t try the DIY approach. If you need something changed around about your account, ask first.
Sure.
And problem solved, Thank you very much! 🙂
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Failed to change E-mailI can fix your problem easily. I just want to know what the actual problem is, not what you think the problem is.
Info from gist copied and deleted. Next time, use email. 🙂
I have a legacy wordpress.org account with username @oldusername and E-mail main@example.com.
Couple years later, I decided to use @gaomd as my username across the Internet, and I actually did (GitHub, Twitter, etc).
Now I’m ready to release a WordPress plugin, I wish I could publish it under username @gaomd, too.
The plan is to stop using @oldusername account, and update it’s E-mail to main+a@example.com (DONE), then register a new account @gaomd with E-mail main@example.com. (But wordpress.org won’t allow me to register with main@example.com again, said “Email already exists”, turns out I registered with main+b@example.com).
TL;DR: Since main@example.com is my main E-mail, I wish I could change the E-mail of my newly created account @gaomd to main@example.com, so I could login with main@example.com, then automagically wordpress.org would pull my correct Gravatar.
Please review the provided reason to see if it’s acceptable and help update my E-mail.
Thank you!
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Failed to change E-mailIt’s hard to believe this behavior is eligible as a feature in year 2015. If E-mail is important to prevent spam, instead of tied to an account forever even if one has changed it, I suggest send an E-mail verification when one changes it’s E-mail at wordpress.org/support, like Codex Wiki did.
If there is no man power to working on these hotfixes, I suggest make a clearer statements (e.g.: Once registered, the E-mail is tied to the account forever (and update it wont change the fact)) on Sign Up & Sign In & Password Reset & E-mail Update forms to prevent confusions, especially their error messages.
Theres is another issue, after I’ve changed the E-mail at wordpress.org/support, the E-mail of associated account at codex.wordpress.org won’t get updated, I have to change it again. I understand it’s hard to couple some very different systems to work together, thanks for you clarifications. Still happy to see some real improvements anyway.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Failed to change E-mailPlease also review this topic: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-already-exists-error?replies=1
Exactly the same bug as in this topic.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Failed to change E-mailI’m releasing a plugin, a commonly known username is important to me.
It’s a bug, because I have changed the {email-A} of my legacy account to {email-B}, after that, {email-A} should not bound to any of you system, and I should be able to register a new account with {email-A}, but I’m facing the Email already exists bug.
Plus, If I do a password reset with {email-A}, you system prompts me The specified user does not exist error, obviously it’s the system WordPress.org messed up.