Divesting 2 blogs & Login Issues

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  senorasundaram · Member · Mar 27, 2026 at 10:02 pm

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  This is complex and I apologize in advance. I already tried the AI chatbot which was unhelpful.

  I started a blog 10+ years ago here with my primary Gmail address for my professional persona. I then created a more personal, travel blog a few weeks ago (it’s not published yet) and decided I should divest it from this account. I did three things:

  • I created a second account with my secondary Gmail address, realized it would be better to use my primary so deleted the account. It deleted without problems.
  • I changed my email address on this account to my secondary email.
  • I deleted the Google sign-in associated with this account (which was through my primary email.)

  Now when I try to log in, I can’t use a password for this account. I cannot create an account with my primary Gmail as it says it’s already in use, but then I cannot log in to it (says to use my username not my email address and then won’t send me a link or take me to where I can actually enter a password). I try to change this account back to my primary Gmail and it says I cannot as it’s already in use elsewhere.

  Please help!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staartmees · Member · Mar 28, 2026 at 6:44 am

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  When you change or delete the email address of an account, the email address is blocked for 30 days.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 28, 2026 at 7:17 am

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  Just adding to what @staartmees mentioned, it’s blocked for 30 days, which is the recovery period before an account is purged, locked and can’t be reused. https://wordpress.com/support/email-address/#reuse-an-email-address

  So if this is urgent and you are within that 30 day period, you can respond to the email you received from WordPress.com when you deleted the account/email. After you have recovered it, change the email on that account to a different email.

  Also, WordPress.com recognizes as a different email address the Gmail trick of adding a +something to your email address so youremail+gone AT gmail would be a separate address from youremail AT gmail

  Otherwise, you’ll need to wait until the 30 days have passed before trying to use that other email address.

  Hope that also helps.

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  tessadaniel0e23a11d63 · Member · Mar 28, 2026 at 7:20 am

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  Thank you! That fixed it!