Former employee created blog; no longer employed & claims to not know password
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A former employee of ours created a blog a couple years ago; I’ve contacted her, and I have a statement from her that she has know knowledge how to get into this blog. I cannot log in. This blog is artsinprison.wordpress.com; our website is artsinprison.org. I am asking this from a personal account (pforpterodactyl), since I can’t access our nonprofit blog.
If we need to create a new blog from scratch, that is fine — but I would like the user/site “artsinprison.”
Please feel free to contact me at roshelleh [at] artsinprison [dot] org … thanks!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Your former employee who registered the blog and owns it canvisit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
and if required click the “Need More Help” link and complete the form for account recovery. -
Once the account has been recovered the blog owner can make you an Admin of the blog and transfer it to your username account. http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account -
You can register any old username, and any old URL for your blog and then change the username on the Profile page under “nickname” to “artsinprison” and use the Custom Domain upgrade to make your URL blog/artsinprison.org.
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Thanks for your help. I sent her these instructions, but she will not return my messages. Am I out of luck?
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To a certain degree you are out of luck – might try a letter from your lawyer suggesting she help a bit more
As @RC suggested above you can start a new blog but map it as a sub-Domain to your existing site – something like blog.artsinprison.org – better for search engines also
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/
The old site has not much content and it is stale – so a new blog would soon outrank it in any search results – put new content on new site – the old site also has a few links to your main site so anyone going to the old blog can still get to the main site
Also since it is a Professional site – getting the no ads upgrade ( $ 30.– /year) would be a good idea
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