• How to log in to the Lounge

    Posted on January 30, 2017 at 09:12 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    We’re up and running. I’m still getting the cosmetics ironed out, so bear with me please. There’s a lot to flesh out. If you want to get set up with a username and password, here’s how to proceed.

    Step 1. In the upper right corner, click the tab marked Register.

    Register

    Step 2. Choose a username, and provide an email address. Click Register. Both the username and the email address have to be unique – you can’t use another user’s username, and you can’t have the same email address assigned to two different accounts.

    Step 3. Look in your email inbox. You’ll get a message from me that starts “Welcome to the AskWoody Lounge!”

    Registration confirmation

    Step 4. Click on the link, near the bottom, that says Password: Click to set. You end up on the (old fashioned!) WordPress signon page.

    Password confirmation

    Step 5. Type in your new password (or accept the automatically generated password, which can be a real mouthful). The suggestion says you should use 12 characters, but that’s overkill: Just don’t reuse a password on AskWoody that you use on important sites. Click Reset Password. You get a notice that your password has been reset.

    We use the WordPress standard encryption, which includes salting and eight passes of MD5 hashing. That’s very secure, unless the NSA is after you.

    Step 6. Click the link to log in.

    In the future, you can log in or log out by using the block in the upper right corner.

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