transfer of blog ownership restrictions
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Do any rules preclude the transfer of an existing but unused WordPress.com site from its original owner to a new one ?
I believe this is the only method by which I can gain the use of a quite desirable but alas retired theme, as to do is governed by blog creation date.
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Can your reach the owner on your own?
Is the owner willing to transfer it to you?
If the answers are yes there are no restrictions.There is no expiration date on blogs unused, reserved or otherwise. If you can make contact on your own with the owner of an unused blog via a contact form or commenting, then providing the are agreeable there is a means of a consenting blog owner to transfer the blog to another username account. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
In the case that there is no contact information Staff will not breach the privacy policy and provide you with an email address.
Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner and it is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and associated email address. You need to contact the blog’s owner and have him transfer the blog to you or at least make you an Admin of the site.
Below is what the blog’s owner must do.
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchased upgrades to renew them or transfer the blogs and the upgrades to another username account.
To transfer a blog from one username account A to another username account B you must first log in under the username account A that owns the blog you want to transfer to the other username account.
Then you add the other username account B as an Admin of the blog.
adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/Then you A can use this process to transfer the blog to that username account B instead http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
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Thank you @timethief for the info above – – wow, you really did a thorough job in your answer.
I will be reaching out to some identified owners for possible transfer.
Looks like there may develop a secondary market for some of those old, dusty, but quite charming themes. Automattic is missing out a bit here !
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