Blog ownership transfer from an email I no longer have access to.

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  missgmfl · Member · Aug 23, 2012 at 12:00 pm

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  I do not have access to my work email address any longer and I want to transfer ownership of my professional blog to my non-work email address, and preferably deleting the account altogether. How can this be done?
  Blog url: http://missgmfl.wordpress.com/

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Aug 28, 2012 at 10:53 pm

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  Hi,

  You can update the email address linked to your WordPress.com account from the Settings tab on the WordPress.com home page when you’re logged in.

  If you want to move the blog to another WordPress.com account, you can follow the steps in this support page:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

  Since we don’t want other people to have your username in the future, we don’t delete usernames (they are kept so they cannot be recycled). For more information, please see:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  Here’s a few suggestions for you if you’d like to scrub the account:

  1) If you are trying to unsubscribe from emails sent to you from WordPress.com, go to http://wordpress.com/#!/read/subsettings/ and click on “Block emails”.

  2) You can go to the gear icon on http://wordpress.com or go here: http://wordpress.com/#!/settings/ and remove all data except the account name and an email address. Create a throwaway email address and change the account email to that throwaway address. This only leaves the username behind.

  3) To ensure the account is locked up tightly, visit this site, generate a password of 15-20 characters, and change the account password to it:
  http://www.thebitmill.com/tools/password.html

  4) While you cannot completely delete your Gravatar profile, you can remove all of your profile information easily through the “Edit My Profile” page here:
  http://en.gravatar.com/profiles/edit/?noclose#about-you

  You can also hide your Gravatar profile from external access. Visit your profile page (click your name in the top navigation of the website), then click the “Hide My Profile” link in the bottom, right-hand corner.