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Lost Blog Login

  • buckerooo · Member · Jun 24, 2018 at 5:51 pm
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    My friend, Sandy, wrote this blog for many years… she is a senior and can’t login. I’ve helped her in the past, unable to now. Is there anything she can do to prove she is the real author and reclaim all of this content as her blog?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • timethief · Member · Jun 24, 2018 at 9:24 pm
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    The first step is for your friend to help by to providing you with the URL of the site and having you post it here.

    What I post below applies only to sites hosted by WordPress.COM on our servers and not to sites hosted anywhere else.

    WordPress.COM sites are solely owned by the username accounts that registered them. (Organizations, companies, etc. do not own sites.)

    You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:

    http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

    * You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with the actual blog’s name in that URL.

    You can update your email address here https://wordpress.com/me

    If you are not logged in under the correct WordPress.COM username account then clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies prior to logging into another account

    If you did not register the site under your username account and do not have the required access, then you need to contact the person who registered the account and site under it, and have them act or transfer the site to your username account by using this process. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

    If the login information has been lost go to

    Change or Reset Your Password

    Change or Reset Your Password

    Have you tried using the lost password link and then checking all likely email addresses for receipt?

    If you check each and every possible email address and account and are not successfully gaining access to the blog then you must complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery so you can be contacted by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access. Support Staff cannot breach the privacy policy and provide the log-in information. You have to provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff to gain access https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/

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