Answers.Body: <p>I've just had a similar problem with a Joomla installation. It was a problem with the civicrm_uf_match table that (in Joomla) links CMS users to Civi contacts. Somehow the CMS user ID in that table was not the current user ID. Civi created a new contact because it could not match the Civi contact back to the user. I don't know how that matching happens in WordPress but it might be worth a look. </p>
  
  <p>To solve in Joomla, I manually changed the CMS ID in the records in the uf_match table to the correct, current CMS ID.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I am not sure how the uf_match issue you describe would result in new Contacts being made each time Admin logs in - can you clarify
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Answers.Text: I'm not sure either. But the OP said "I have no idea where to start looking to fix this issue".  If the WP issue is similar to the Joomla one I have experienced, the new Civi contact could be created if the admin logs into the front end. She doesn't specify this. Maybe the answer isn't very helpful but it **is** somewhere "to start looking" ...
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Answers.Body: <p>Since the last update, and since switching from MyISAM to InnoDB databases, the problem has resolved itself. I've a suspicion that it was a MyISAM vs InnoDB issue.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I have no idea where to start looking to fix this issue. Every time I login as admin CiviCRM seems to create a new user contact for me. So there's currently a gazillion contacts for my email address (well, 10,000, which is nearly a gazillion).</p>
  
  <p>I'm running CiviCRM 4.6.8 on WordPress 4.3.1.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: is this the same site with these issues? http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/6791/civicrm-not-creating-wordpress-user-accounts-on-member-registration if so it sounds like there is some fairly fundamental issues afoot with your basic set up. i can't point to the cause, but somethings worth checking, when you move around the site are you ever changing from http to https or from www to no-www - if either then suggests your base url in civicrm.settings.php needs checking
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Title: New contact created every time I login!
ThreadText: # New contact created every time I login!
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-07)
  
  I have no idea where to start looking to fix this issue. Every time I login as admin CiviCRM seems to create a new user contact for me. So there's currently a gazillion contacts for my email address (well, 10,000, which is nearly a gazillion).
  
  I'm running CiviCRM 4.6.8 on WordPress 4.3.1.
  
  **Tags:** wordpress
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: is this the same site with these issues? http://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/6791/civicrm-not-creating-wordpress-user-accounts-on-member-registration if so it sounds like there is some fairly fundamental issues afoot with your basic set up. i can't point to the cause, but somethings worth checking, when you move around the site are you ever changing from http to https or from www to no-www - if either then suggests your base url in civicrm.settings.php needs checking  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-10-08. Score: 2
  
  I've just had a similar problem with a Joomla installation. It was a problem with the civicrm\_uf\_match table that (in Joomla) links CMS users to Civi contacts. Somehow the CMS user ID in that table was not the current user ID. Civi created a new contact because it could not match the Civi contact back to the user. I don't know how that matching happens in WordPress but it might be worth a look.
  
  To solve in Joomla, I manually changed the CMS ID in the records in the uf\_match table to the correct, current CMS ID.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I am not sure how the uf_match issue you describe would result in new Contacts being made each time Admin logs in - can you clarify  
  > **username_2**: I'm not sure either. But the OP said "I have no idea where to start looking to fix this issue".  If the WP issue is similar to the Joomla one I have experienced, the new Civi contact could be created if the admin logs into the front end. She doesn't specify this. Maybe the answer isn't very helpful but it **is** somewhere "to start looking" ...  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2015-11-08. Score: 1
  
  Since the last update, and since switching from MyISAM to InnoDB databases, the problem has resolved itself. I've a suspicion that it was a MyISAM vs InnoDB issue.
  
  
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