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<div dir="ltr">Well I should give apologies to Google, as there IS a local login function in its account creator wordpress integration. Though ...it did take a week to find it. If you type a local account name into the box labeled "email", it does a classical local login (with local password challenge). <br> <br><div> </div> </div>
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