accidental duplication

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  miketford · Member · Jun 25, 2018 at 10:57 pm

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  Some time ago, I tried to connect my account with my gmail address, but WordPress created a new account tied to my email instead. I need them to delete the new account so I can tie my email to my blog. How can I get them to do it?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jun 26, 2018 at 5:48 am

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  Hi there,

  You can delete the other account yourself by logging into that account and then going to the Account Settings page:

  https://wordpress.com/me/account/

  Close Your Account

  However, note that won’t immediately free up the Gmail address, but it will only become available a few weeks later once the account’s data is completely deleted.

  If you want to use the Gmail address immediately I’d rather suggest the following:

  Log into the account using that address, and change it to an alias. For example, if your address is example[at]gmail.com, change it to example+otheraccount[at]gmail.com. From Gmail’s point of view it’s still the same email, so you’ll receive the email to verify this change, but our system sees it as a different address, so making that change will free up example[at]gmail.com immediately so you can use it with this account instead.

  Let me know if you have any questions about this.