WordPress signon for FeedLand

[scripting]

You can now sign on feedland.org with a WordPress account.

It's a good idea to read this whole page before trying it, so you know what to expect.

How it works

If you sign on with WordPress, one of three things happens.

1. If the email address you used for WordPress and the one you used for FeedLand are the same, you will be signed on with the existing FeedLand account. A new account will not be created.
2. If the email addresses are different, and the account name you used in WordPress is not already being used on FeedLand, a new account will be created with the username and email address from your WordPress account.
3. If the account name is already in use, you'll get an error message, and will not be able to use your WordPress account to log in.

This is only complicated because on feedland.org we are supporting both kinds of login. On a system that only allowed one, it would stay simple.

Also if you're worried about creating an extraneous account, please go ahead. Accounts take up very little space on the server. As far as I know you can't hurt your existing account this way. (Knock wood.)

How to

1. If you're signed on, choose the last command in the system menu (the one at the right edge of the screen) to sign off.
2. Choose Sign on with WordPress in the Tools menu.
3. On the wordpress.com page that's displayed click the Approve button.
4. You are transported back to FeedLand, signed on, or not. If not an error dialog should appear explaining what happened.

When you're done, you're signed on exactly as if you had signed on with an email address, except you have signed on with WordPress.

Screen shots

[troutcolor]

Hi Dave,
I get an message 'socket hang up' after I hit the Approve button. I've tried in a couple of browsers, Safari & Firefox on mac.

The first time I tried I was signed in to FL with email on iPad, got the same message.

Cheers

John

[scripting]

@troutcolor -- could you do it again? i have the log running now, didn't have it before. should be easy to fix (he said too confidently).

[scripting]

I believe I found and fixed the problem that was making it not work for @troutcolor.

[troutcolor]

@scripting just logged on on on iPad successfully, thanks.

Cheers

John

[scripting]

BTW, this place is just for support, things like this --

1. Something isn't working the way you think it should.
2. I just shipped a new feature and want to confirm that it works or doesn't.

It's not a place to discuss blog posts that may be about this product, those are my opinions. If you have questions or comments about my blog writing, or even why certain features are not in the product, you can if you want write a blog post of your own and send me a link. I'll read it, but can't guarantee that I'll respond.

[juandesant]

Hi, @scripting, thanks for this! It seems I have a previous account with the same username as my Wordpress account (and this Github account, juandesant), and because of that existing username I cannot use the WordPress login. However, I cannot retrieve my email from my username, what can I do?

Update: Now that I think of it, my previous account was probably based on my now defunct Twitter account… is there a way to reset it?