Thank you both very much – honestly just hearing that this is normal and others fight with this too is reassuring. Switching up the login page is clever, such a great tip – as well as all the other suggestions. thank you!
yep, it was totally the wordpress plugin – forgot to check a box, gah! thank you so much 🙂
Oh geez, you’re right – I missed that part.
Okay, so the theme I’m using doesn’t have a header.php file I can get to, so I thought I’d just chuck it and try a new theme to see if the problem follows. It does. So, that probably means it has something to do with one of the two plugins I’ve installed? I’m using WordPress SEO and Sexybookmarks. Any experience with either of them doing this maybe?