We just released in Babies and more a new registration system alternative and complementary to what we already offered with OpenID. It is a standard registration system, with e-mail and password, so that all those who wish to register and / or identify you in a more conventional way can also do so, without having to go through OpenID.
New users
If you have not registered yet As a user in Babies and more, now you can do it simply with your e-mail and password, following these steps:
- Access the registration / login page from the top right of the blog by clicking on “Enter”.
- From there, access the standard account registry by clicking on the left side of the page in “Create your user account”.
- Enter your access data (e-mail, password and username), and optionally a series of statistical data (date of birth, sex, zip code and country) that will help us to better understand our audience. You accept the privacy policy and click on the “End Registration” button.
- You will then receive in this email account a confirmation email as a user, and to activate the account you will have to click on the link it contains.
- Then we will give you the possibility to add a photograph and a description to your user page, so that the rest of the users of the community know you, and from that moment on you will be able to start participating in the community as a registered user.
From your user page you can change at any time, if you wish, both your email address and your password, from editing your profile on your user page.
Registered users
If you are already a registered user in Babies and more you have two options: or continue accessing the blog with your OpenID account as you have been doing until now or, if you prefer and it is more comfortable, register a standard account (with e-mail and password) associated with your current account and user page, so that you can keep all the information (username, full name and description), activity (comments on posts, votes to posts and comments, lists of experts and followers) and karma associated with your current profile.
To do this you have to do the following:
- Access the registration / login page from the top right of the blog by clicking on “Enter”.
- Identify yourself in Babies and more with your current OpenID account on the right side of the page, entering your OpenID URL and selecting the option "No need, use OpenID" before pressing the "Enter" button.
- Access your user page and click on the "Associate an account" button below the description.
- Once there you will have to select the option “Associate a standard account with e-mail”, add the email account with which you would like to access the blog and press the button “Add this account” to associate it with your current user profile .
- Then, since this email account is not yet registered, it will show you an error message in which you will be offered a link to register and associate with your current OpenID account.
- You will then receive an activation email for that email account, and after clicking on the URL you will be able to access your profile on the blog with the email and password of the standard account as well.
And also ... global single account in WSL
Finally, we are also pleased to inform you that it is already possible to register and / or identify yourself in any of the publications of Weblogs SL (you can see them in the horizontal bar located at the top of the page, above the header) with a single global account. The one you choose, whether OpenID or standard with e-mail and password, and regardless of whether or not you are registered as users in any of our publications.
If you are already a user of some of them you will also have the possibility of associating your previous account (s) is that unique global account chosen, so that you can keep the information, activity and karma that you already had associated with each of them and access any of our publications with only one account.
The ultimate goal of these changes is to make it easier for you to daily check all our blogs, through several simple registration alternatives (only with an email or OpenID account) as long as you can have all your page under your user page. tracking information from the network and other readers.
That's it, we hope that this new standard registration system with e-mail and password will facilitate the experience for those who did not like the OpenID, and encourage you to participate in the community of Baby users and more.
