To expand a little more beyond what Chip said, each "section" of WordPress uses different publishing platforms. Few have access to the "WordPress" part of WordPress.org or WordPress.com (they both have similar setups) as the bloggy part is small comparatively. <div>
<br></div><div>The Forums are on bbPress. The Codex is on MediaWiki. There are even efforts to incorporate some BuddyPress features into the whole mess, though I'm not sure of the status of those yet, and how much is BuddyPress and how much is custom. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Each of these has their own logins. Integrating the forums into WordPress.org was easy as it was mostly bbPress. After a couple years, they incorporated the "look and feel" of the Codex into the main site, but logins were never completely merged in. Now, that's the effort. How to combine two extensive and HUGE databases into one. Kudos to all involved in the effort. It's a monstrous one and I hope they blog it cuz I'm fascinated to see how it all comes together and the challenges that had to be overcome in the process. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Hopefully soon, we'll all be one happy login family. :D </div><div><br></div><div>Lorelle<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Arlen Beiler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arlenbee@gmail.com">arlenbee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
What is the difference between <a href="http://wp.org" target="_blank">wp.org</a> logins and codex logins? I have yet to figure out the reason for this.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div>
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