Problems Registering to Blog?

Hi Puma PAC Member!

If you haven’t yet officially joined Puma PAC, please do so now and then come back here for answers to frequently encountered problems with registering to blog on the Puma PAC forums.

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Now that you’re back, Welcome! If you are having trouble logging in or registering to blog at the Puma PAC website there are a couple of reasons this might be happening. Puma PAC does not handle the registrations to the blog. This is done by WordPress (the software company that makes this nifty blog template). However, we have helped people get around the most common problems, and they are all blogging happily today!

First, if you are brand new and have not received the email from WordPress with your temporary password, it may be hiding in your junk or spam email folder. MANY people have found their passwords there. Go look now and see if there is an email from WordPress there. If so, You are ALL SET. Simply COPY the temporary password in the email, click on the link to register, and PASTE your temporary password into the password box. REMEMBER to change your password in your WordPress Profile as soon as you login. Change it to something you can easily remember, and/or write your password down. The temporary password from WordPress really is temporary and will expire within a week or even less. If this works for you, you are ALL SET! Welcome to blogging, now go get talking in the discussion threads!

However, if you have been successfully logging in and blogging at Puma PAC but are now locked out because your password is not recognized anymore, you were probably using the temporary password and it expired. This is too bad. The only way we know of to get around this is to re-register from scratch with a new username and a new email account. You will have to get a free email account from gmail. The good news is that gmail accounts are totally FREE and take about 1 minute to set up. You can also set your gmail account preferences to automatically forward all your messages to your primary email account. SO, go get a gmail account (www.gmail.com), pick a new username that is close to your old one, and re-register. Then you can get back to blogging! Important — when you get your temporary password from WordPress, use it to login but then the first thing you need to do is change your password to a permanent, personal password — one you can easily remember.

Finally, some people never even get their temporary passwords from WordPress. They look and look everywhere — in junk mail, spam mail, and trash folders — and the email JUST IS NOT THERE. This happens quite a lot if you use att, sbcglobal, hotmail, and some other email providers. These email providers have such stringent spam filters that the email from WordPress is blocked. If this situation describes yours, then you also need to set up a gmail account and re-register from the beginning again. Sorry about that — but spam filters can be TOO good sometimes. I’ll repeat the instructions in case you didn’t read paragraph number 5. You will have to get a free email account from gmail. The good news is that gmail accounts are totally FREE and take about 1 minute to set up. You can also set your gmail account preferences to automatically forward all your messages to your primary email account. SO, go set a gmail account (www.gmail.com), pick a new username that is close to your old one, and re-register. Then you can start blogging! Important — when you get your temporary password from WordPress, use it to login but then the first thing you need to do is change your password to a permanent, personal password — one you can easily remember.

I hope this helps — please let me know if you still have problems after trying all of the steps above. Sincerely, Mamapuma. mamapumamass@aol.com