[wp-forums] Forum login changes

James Huff macmanx at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 19:24:15 UTC 2010


It's working now, Otto, thanks!  Not sure what happened, but it wasn't working at all before, I even tried in two browsers.


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On Oct 1, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Otto wrote:

> 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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