Confirm Your Email Address

You provide your contact email address when you first create your WordPress.com account. Before you can launch your website, you must confirm that the email address is valid and able to receive important emails from WordPress.com. In this guide you will learn how to confirm your email address.

In this guide

1. Confirm Your Email Address
2. If You Did Not Receive the Confirmation Email

To confirm your account email address:

1. Log into the email account you used to sign up for WordPress.com.
2. Open the email titled “Activate [site name]”.
   • The email will come from "WordPress.com" <donotreply@wordpress.com>
3. Click the “Click here to Confirm Now” button in the body of the email.

If You Did Not Receive the Confirmation Email

We send a confirmantion email to the email address you signed up with. If you did not receive the confirmation email in your inbox, check your spam and junk mail folders.

You can resend the confirmation email, or change the email address it is sent to by taking the following steps:

1. Visit your WordPress.com dashboard.
2. Access your profile at https://wordpress.com/me.
3. Look for the notice titled “Please confirm your email address”
4. Click either “Re-send your confirmation email” or “change the email address on your account”.
5. Look for the confirmation email in your email inbox, spam, or junk mail folders.