Log-In confusion; administrative pass, etc.

  • crobinator

    (@crobinator)


    14 years ago

    I apologize in advance if I confuse anything.

    I have an account at WordPress as crobiknitter. I eventually bought the domain crobinator.com through WordPress and since September, WordPress hosted that domain. Wanting more freedom to make changes, become an ebay partner on another site, etc., I switched hosts to GoDaddy buying their host and WordPress package.

    Now my WordPress accounts for posting, etc., should be crobinator. However, I cannot log in as crobinator, only crobiknitter. As I understand it, having WordPress run on another server should also give me more administrative leave when it comes to themes, etc. (such as the “add theme” option – uploading a new theme to my contents folder via ftp). However, I can only log in using the crobiknitter username and see the url for any access to posting/admin tasks is https://crobiknitter.wordpress.com – and NOT crobinator.com. The login page is crobinator.com/wp-admin – but again, I can’t log in as crobinator and once I do log in as crobiknitter, there seem to be no added features.

    So question one:
    1) Should my log-in be crobinator, as I think it should, or does my original sign up with WP as crobiknitter still stand?
    2) Should I have more administrative leave with my site now that it is hosted by GoDaddy, such as uploading and manipulating more themes? Should more options be on my dashboard?

    and 3 is below:

    I wanted to run WP 3.1 from my computer – but after messing around, installing/uninstalling, is it my understanding that it’s really just running from a different server? I took “run from my computer” to mean that even if I weren’t online, I could work on my site using a WP program and when I chose, upload it accordingly.

    Lots of questions here. Any thoughts?
    I appreciate your help in advance. I’m going crazy and my son only naps once a day. ??

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  • Thread Starter crobinator

    (@crobinator)

    (PS – do I need to delete my crobiknitter account? Are they conflicting?)

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Who is currently hosting your domain name?

    Thread Starter crobinator

    (@crobinator)

    GoDaddy.com is now hosting it, with their hosting/WordPress package.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Are you sure? Did you ask wordpress.com to transfer the domain name over to GoDaddy? If so, when did that transfer take place?

    Thread Starter crobinator

    (@crobinator)

    I did do the transfer and received the confirmations over email that the transfer was successful.

    Do you think there’s another step I did not take?

    I’ll double check WP’s domain management…

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    When did the transfer take place? It can sometimes take more than 72 hours for a domain transfer to propagate fully.

    Thread Starter crobinator

    (@crobinator)

    Okay. Thank you for having me check.

    The domain transfer will proceed on 3/4/11. (I should have read that more carefully).

    So after tomorrow, will I see changes to the dashboard? And should crobiknitter no longer be a log-in option?

    Sorry I did not dot all my p’s and q’s in the first go round. I hate getting frustrated and googling my ears off when it’s something so simple! ??

    Thread Starter crobinator

    (@crobinator)

    (er, after the 4th – Saturday)

    Thread Starter crobinator

    (@crobinator)

    And to answer your question, because I realize I did not, I set the transfer up on 2/28/11 – a five day turnaround!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Contact GoDaddy and check that it has transferred properly. From what I can see, crobinator.com is being hosted by wordpress.com

    Thread Starter crobinator

    (@crobinator)

    From the domain manager email from WordPress:

    “If we do not hear from you by 04-Mar-11, the transfer will proceed.

    Regards,
    Domain Services
    Automattic”

    So hopefully it will go through today at some point…

    Are my other assumptions correct? More options for admin services, and running WordPress on my computer?

    –c.

    Erik

    (@southernutahautism)

    You need to better understand what was going on in each situation.

    You set up a wordpress.com account. This is a hosted, managed blog run by WordPress.COM. You then got your own domain, and had it forward/mirrored to the wordpress.COM blog you set up.

    You then wanted to change to a self-hosted solution (the www.remarpro.com method). So you signed up for godaddy, and had your domain DNS re-pointed to godaddy’s hosting, where they installed a version of WordPress for you, which *should* give you complete control since this is the same sort of install you would get if you were to download the wordpress source files from www.remarpro.com.

    It appears though, that your domain hasn’t propagated yet and you’re still reaching the old wordpress.COM site, and that at some point, your domain will resolve the new Godaddy hosted blog, which I presume will be just a blank install with the TwentyTen theme, and you’ll have to import over your old blog entires and then find a theme you want to use.

    Without doing some sort of export/import from your wordpress.COM site, to your new godaddy site, they are totally separate things.

    Right now, your crombinator.com domain is resolving the following DNS entries:

    Name Server: NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
    Name Server: NS2.WORDPRESS.COM

    So it is not being hosted by Godaddy, and you are still just logging in to the old wordpress.COM blog whether you go to crombinator.wordpress.com or crombinator.com – they go to the same hosted blog at wordpress.COM.

    As for why your domain DNS hasn’t repointed at godaddy, I can’t say, that’s something you’d need to look into with wherever you REGISTERED the domain, which appears to be:

    Registrar: WILD WEST DOMAINS, INC.
    Whois Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com

    From there, you would need to change the DNS settings to point your domain to whatever DNS godaddy has supplied you. At that point, changing DNS can take from 1 hour to 72 hours depending, and then when it is done, your domain will resolve at godaddy, where again, you’ll probably see either a blank page, or a totally fresh install of wordpress. From there, your job will be transferring over your posts/images/pages and then installing the theme you want to use, which can be the same theme you are already using.

    I have no idea how much access wordpress.COM gives you to exporting your SQL database, so I can’t really help much with how to transfer a wordpress.COM site to a self-hosted site.

    Also, as far as installing wordpress on your one home machine to work on it “offline”, you would need to install what is known as a WAMP, MAMP, LAMP (Windows/Mac/Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP) server so that your machine can process the mysql and php like a web server.

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