A regular poster emailed the following complaint:
It seems impossible to login into your blog (for posting of comments) by reason of technical difficulties ie the recurrent appearance of message : ‘Your session has expired.ERROR: Invalid Username – Username: xxx'”
I also had this problem at first when the temporary blogsite, English.limkitsiang.com was switched back to blog.limkitsiang.com two days ago.
I was advised to clean up the cache. If using Explorer browser, for instance, go to Tools, Internet Options, Delete Cookies, and Delete Files. The problem vanished.
I emailed back to the poster suggesting he try out the same method. This is his reply:
“Your suggestion to clean up the cache, via Tools, Internet Options, Delete Cookies, and Delete Files actually worked! I can’t believe or understand it.
“Now no more recurrent appearances of the message : ‘Your session has expired.ERROR: Invalid Username’ – Username, which paved the way for username and password to be log-in resulting in the ‘login’ window for postings for each thread to appear below it.
“On your question whether you should put up an announcement, I think there is no harm if you just advise those encountering such a problem, if they do encounter it, to clean up the cache as you suggested.
“As I don’t see a number of regular posters posting their comments, it is well nigh possible more than a few are affected.
“Many people are unaware that as they use the computer, cookies and files are automatically stored up, which appear to obstruct the smooth transition to and operation of your new Word Press publishing platform. And we don’t know how common is this problem. Unless those affected drop a line to you, there’s no way they can communicate this problem via your blog because they (like me) can’t log in.
“But If they do e-mail, it is also possible that it may be retoured for being possibly wrong address as you will notice that your email address in the new word press blog is printed as llimkitsiangblog@gmail.com – there are two (2) l l for ‘Lim’ which I expect should be one ‘l’ only.”
I thank this poster for pointing out the incorrect blog email. The above exchange is for the benefit of posters who are frustrated by the same kink blocking their login to the blog – just clean up the cache and delete the cookies.