[wp-forums] Forum login changes

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Fri Oct 1 19:22:33 UTC 2010


I just tried and I was able to spam, unspam, and delete topics with no problem.

Those are admin functions though. Go to the admin area, then go back
to the normal areas and try it.

-Otto



On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM, James Huff <macmanx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Possibly related, but I can no longer un-spam replies, mark replies as spam, or delete entire topics.  Oddly enough, I can delete individual replies, but that's it.
>
> I did clear all wordpress.org cookies before logging in as instructed.
>
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> On Oct 1, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Otto wrote:
>
>> For you moderators and anybody else with access to the admin sections
>> of the forums, you may find that you can't access them anymore. Don't
>> panic: Just log out then log back in.
>>
>> I've fixed the single sign on cookies so that they share properly
>> across all the various sections of wp.org (minus /extend/themes and
>> codex, at the moment). This means that while your login cookies
>> haven't changed, your admin authorization cookies have. So until you
>> reset them and get the right cookie, you (probably) won't be able to
>> get into the forum admin areas.
>>
>> So, log out then log back in before trying anything else. If that
>> doesn't work, clear all cookies then log back in.
>>
>> This should only ever be required once, to get your cookies
>> straightened out right.
>>
>> -Otto
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