Registration & Login
In order to submit comments to the Wachter's World Blog you need to create an account before posting. This allows you to take advantage of all the features offered by Wachter's World, such as setting your own preferences, signing up for email alerts to new posts and comments, etc. It only takes a few seconds to register, and we look forward to welcoming you on board.
To create an account you will need to visit the Registration page and complete the form for creating a new account. Here you will specify details such as your login name, email address and password.
After successfully registering you should have a username and password. You can then visit the login page and enter your username and password to login.
When logging in if you do not check the ‘Remember Me’ option you will be automatically logged off after a pre-defined length of inactivity, usually 20 minutes. If you would like the site to always log you in automatically, please check the ‘Remember Me’ checkbox.
If you forgot your username and/or password you can visit the Forget Your Password page and have both your username and a new password emailed to you by entering the email account you're registered with. You will be sent a new password since we store your password encrypted and have no way of retrieving the original value. Once you receive your username and new password you can login and change your password.
If you’ve registered and can’t login, check to ensure you have a valid username and password. If you are sure the username and password are valid, but still can’t login you may either require account activation or your account may be on hold. In this case it is best to contact the board administrator(s) or moderator(s).
First check to ensure your username and password are correct. If you still can’t login your account has either been put on hold or deleted due to inactivity. Please contact the board administrator(s) or moderator(s).
User Profile & Settings
A profile is information about your account that controls how you view information within Wachter's World. This includes details about posts you’ve contributed to, and personal information you wish to share such as your web address.
Setting your timezone will enable Wachter's World to display all dates and time relative to your time zone.
The date format used to display any date information can be configured from your profile.
Email tracking is a feature which will send emails to you when posts that you are subscribed to change. You can turn off all email tracking globally from your profile, or you can unsubscribe to individual posts that you have previously subscribed to.
This is primarily to protect the privacy of users who have shared their information or to prevent unwanted/unsolicited emails.
Privacy & Security
Once logged in you can change your password from your Profile page.
Username's cannot be changed.
Once logged in, you can change your private email address from your Profile page.
The only profile setting that is required is your private email address. This is the email address that is used when you subscribe to posts, when a forgotten username/password is emailed to you, etc. The private email address is never shared or displayed publicly. If you wish to share an email address publicly, use the public email address field. The remainder of the profile settings is optional.