Frequently Asked Questions
Registration and Login
I did not register but received a registration email
We are sorry for your inconvenience. This means that hackers have been able to get your real email address and attempted to register an account on the World Water Community using your email.
There is nothing you need to do. We send email registration confirmation emails to make sure only people who want to become a member of the World Water Community become activated.
When you do not click on the activation link. The account with your email is “pending”. We frequently delete all pending accounts, thus deleting your email.
I am unable to create an account
Our website may check the TrustScore of your:
- Email domain
- Server IP-address
In rare occasions, your internet service provider may have been given an IP-address which was previously used for spamming and is listed in the global IP-blocking list.
Whilst we can not check if your email is correct, we can check email TrustScore. Temporary email address domains have low TrustScore and are blocked.
What to do?
- Check if you have typed you email correctly
- If you use a temporary or “secret” email address with low score, see if you can use another email address to register.
If the issue remains, create a support ticket.
I am unable to login (new user)
Are you a new user? Make sure you have activated your account. After your registration an email was sent to you to activate your account.
You can activate your account by clicking on the “Activate-My-Account” link in the email.
Activation email not received?
Sometimes receiving the account activation email may take 10 minutes. Also check your spam folder.
Did you not receive the activation email?
Create a support ticket with your full name, and let us know your IP address (you can check your IP here).
I am unable to login or blocked
After ten failed login attempts, you are locked out for 60 minutes.
Try after 60 minutes if your account is automatically unlocked.
If you are locked out again, or when you have been blocked by another user, we need to unlock your account manually.
Create a support ticket with your full name, and let us know your IP address (you can check your IP here).
Posts
What image sizes and dimensions should I use?
Please check the optimal image sizes to use on our plaform here.
How can I upload a video?
Videos can’t be uploaded. If you have your video on Youtube or alike, you can add the link in your post, and see if it will show with a nice image, in that case it has embedding capabilities and it can play in our activity feed.
However if the video doesn’t have this function you can use the hyperlink functionality to direct people to your video.
Either way people can see your video!
My posts are not translated
Posts are only translated from English to any of the other languages. So if you want your message to be read in other languages, please translate it yourself to English, so that our automatic translation can subsequently translate it to all other languages.
Location autocomplete doesn't work
We use Google API to autocomplete locations when you start typing. However, we have ‘capped’ the usage of this API to a daily limit to take care of our budget, therefore it can happen that it sometimes does not work.
I get an error when inserting links in posts
The link you are embedding is probably not on the link list that can be embed in WordPress. Please check this link: https://wordpress.org/support/
Since you cannot embed these kinds of links, the platform will not allow you to post it even if you have the preview. So the safe way to post it is through using a hyperlink.