My darn password!
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WordPress and I had issues way back when I was forced to select a new password because mine own of many years was deemed too ‘weak’ to withstand the onslaughts of crazed hackers after my treasure. I didn’t want to, and I got cranky about it, which response was perhaps more prompted by hotmail’s freakout at about the same time in which Microsoft made a complete donkey of itself with their two-step security tango. I had just had to change my twenty year email and was still smarting over it. Nevertheless, I had to change my WordPress password to one harder to type, harder to remember, and based on empirical evidence, unnecessary (I’ve never been hacked and have no online treasures). Well, now WordPress won’t ‘remember’ the new one in the automatic re-sign-in box that pops up every now and then). I always select ‘remember me’ and the password is always automatically filled in–but with my old password, which no longer works. It does not like my new password and does not retain it. I have to re-type my new one every time. I am afraid to ‘update my profile’ lest I be forced to select yet another new password (you know how it goes, sometimes they won’t let you select a ‘used’ password).
I only tell the whole story because this is related to passwords–otherwise, I hardly ever think of my disappointment in WordPress over this small security change. Hardly ever.
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The field is filled in with your old password because of a cookie set in your browser to remember that setting. If you clear your WordPress.com cookies, all of your settings will be cleared out and you can use your new password.
Note: do not clear *all* browser cookies, or your browser will forget your password to many other sites as well.
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Dear jackiedana,
Thanks so much for your response! I tried to complete just what you said to do, so I could put this snag in the Resolved box, but I’ve run into a roadblock. I’m using Chrome. I go to Tools but I am not offered the chance to clear just the WordPress cookies. It seems to me one was able to do this in Explorer, but I can’t find the sweetspot in Chrome. I don’t mind clearing all cookies but since you brought it up, maybe you know a way. I used to use Explorer so happily but they too went on a security freakout. I forget the details, I had to update the version but I couldn’t update the version because I wouldn’t give them a mobile phone number as part of ‘security.’ . Something like that. As if they couldn’t be hacked!
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From Google – how to clear your browser’s cache and cookies Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95582 -
Hello, dear timethief, but this link takes me to the one that clears all, or, it is true, there is a second option, you get to look at the History and I presume select the one you’d like to change, but I’d have to go back years to find the specific day and time I chose the password to WordPress that I’m trying to banish. So your suggestion doesn’t help, unless I’m not understanding, which is quite probable.
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Possibly the issue is whether or not the original suggestion that WordPress cookies could be cleared and the rest kept is a fact. It may be true in Explorer, not in Chrome (that’s what I think I have found).
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Well, in summary, here’s where this thread is: waiting to get instructions to follow first advice to clear only WordPress’ cookies in Chrome. The page the second advice refers to does not give the option to select an address and clear all the history–cookies–from that site only. It gives single hits on the page. You’d have to clear each one by hand.
If the first advice has turned out to be incorrect, shouldn’t that be said, for the sake of future users, before we go on? Or, is there a way to clear the cookies from a single site, in Chrome? Because I cannot find it, nor on the page timethief sent.
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You can indeed clear selected cookies in Chrome.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
In the “Cookies” section, you can change the following cookies settings:
Delete cookies
Click All cookies and site data to open the Cookies and Other Data dialog.
To delete all cookies, click Remove all at the bottom of the dialog.
To delete a specific cookie, hover over the site that issued the cookie with your mouse, then click the X that appears on the right corner. -
Hey, jackiedana, first I went to find out where the Cookie section was, which I found in Help, and then first try got lost (missed the Show Advanced Settings at the very bottom, and that’s where they keep the cookies, of course) but second try was able to add wordpress.com to the allowed ‘keep cookies’ list (I didn’t have to change my ‘no third party cookies’ setting, which I forget why I have, but am presuming it provides better security. The allowed-site list (actually named the Exceptions) is just like Explorer’s, once you get there. But wow they sure buried it.
Thanks very much. Since I was able to add wordpress to the exceptions list, which I know works from past experience, I think this issue is resolved. Making me forget my password disappointment, gotta admit it.
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I agree, Chrome doesn’t make it easy to find this setting. :)
Keep in mind that to delete a password from being automatically completed in your browser, you will want to remove WordPress.com cookies to clear the password out. You will get “new” cookies when you log in again.
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Oh, right! Quite! Well, in fact, when I was messing around before, I accidentally cleared all my whole wordpress history (I was in history, not the cookies page). So we’ll see–if the old one is still in there, I know where to go, delete wordpress.com, go out, maybe restart, go back and put wordpress.com back in. Thanks so much!
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