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Look! I can’t log into wordpress.com. I just tried to sign up again using my existing user name and it says I can’t because that user name is already being used!

I should have to set up a different account, even though I already have an account?

I’m trying to install the Askimet plug-in, but I can’t because WordPress did not provide the API key when they sent me my password.

I can’t log in to wordpress.com. I enter the username and the password that WordPress supplied, but I get a message saying the password isn’t right. I try to get a new password emailed to me, but that doesn’t work.

I can log into www.ads-software.com, but not wordpress.com.

This is frustrating. My blog is being deluged with comments advertising Viagra and penis enlargers and I want to install Askimet to bring it to an end.

I sent an email to WordPress Support, but don’t get any response.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

So . . . your experience is that you should be able to type extended characters in your posts (using the WordPress Write Post window) and they get converted when the post is saved.

Is that they way it should work? That’s how it was working for me until . . . I dunno! Something must have gone haywire.

moshu:

Let me put the problem this way. I’m typing my post in the WordPress Write Post window. I don’t bother inserting paragraph markers. What I find is that, if I put an extra line between each paragraph, then when I save the post, WordPress adds the paragraph markers for me.

Likewise, if I type a curly quote or an apostrophe or an em dash, WordPress converts them to the appropriate character codes for me.

That’s the way it was working. Now, WordPress adds the paragraph markers, but it doesn’t convert the extended characters. That’s a problem. How do I get it to convert extended characters again when I save a post?

Thanks.

moshu:

Why not? WordPress was converting the characters for me just fine. If I work in a text editor, I have to convert the extended characters manually.

Is there a better way to change them? Thanks