Deleting an old blog
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Hi, hoping someone can help – I’m looking to delete an old wordpress blog under my personal name that is currently sitting on Page 1 of google for my name. nothing NSFW or anything, just looking control what goes on page 1. Problem is i can’t remember the password for that account, and don’t have access to that email address anymore… could anyone help?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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One cannot delete any site one did not register under their username account, or that has not been transferred to their username account by the person with the account that registered it.
Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account.
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:
http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
* You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with the actual blog’s name in that URL.
If the log-in information is lost they need to visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
If you do not have the required access and someone else registered the site you need to contact the person who registered the account and site under it and have them transfer the sites to your username account by using this process. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
If you check each and every possible email address and account and are not successful gaining access to the blog(s) then you must complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery and submit it to the Account Recovery Staff, and provide proof ownership, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access.
Support Staff cannot breach the privacy policy and provide the log-in information. You have to provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff to gain access https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/
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Hi timethief, thanks for your help. I don’t have any of the three proof of ownerships however – no transaction ID as I never upgraded. no activation key as I can’t seem to access the email address. Don’t think I have two-factor authentication. What can I do?
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I’m sorry but you have reached a dead end. Account Recovery Staff cannot provide access to any site you cannot provide proof of ownership for.
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