How can I change blog administrators?

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    hiddenmatza · Member ·

    I am the owner of Afikomen Judaica, a Jewish lifestyle and bookstore in Berkeley CA. It occurred to me to start a blog about the store and I searched online and found someone had set up a blog with my store’s logo…

    I contacted them through the blog and she has been trying to get the Admin email to change to my email, so that I will have Admin access to the blog. She has sent me screen shots of where she inserted my email address [e-mail removed by staff] that indicate a message will be sent for confirmation of new Admin access. No email has ever arrived.

    Once several months ago when I started this process, I got an email from WordPress and when I followed the link it asked me to Log In, which I did with my WordPress username and password and an error message was shown on the screen.

    Please help me get access to this blog.
    Thanks.
    Chaim
    Blog url: http://afikomen.wordpress.com/

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    evarlese · Member ·

    Hi Chaim,

    The current administrator should be able to change the admin e-mail address by going to the blog’s Dashboard > Users > Personal Settings page and inserting your e-mail in the “E-mail” text box and clicking “Save.”

    You will then receive a confirmation e-mail to approve this change.

    If you do not see the confirmation e-mail in your inbox, can you try checking for it in your Spam/Junk mail folder?

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    hiddenmatza · Member ·

    I think this is what’s happening; When the Admin is requesting to change emails, the link to a login page comes to my email. When I login with my username, I get an error message that says ‘cheatin?’. I think the program is wanting the current Admin to log in to confirm the email change as it is not recognizing me as associated with the blog. Thoughts?

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    evarlese · Member ·

    Yes, it does want you to log is as the current user – I’m afraid I misunderstood!

    If the site’s admin wants to transfer the blog to your personal WordPress account, they can do that by following the directions available here:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

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