Gaining control over an old site that I protected

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  drmarcmarenco · Member · Dec 26, 2019 at 5:24 am

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  I have an old wordpress site that I added ‘protection’ to at some point. I went to the site and it says it is protected. How do I regain control over this old site…? Thank you…

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  staartmees · Member · Dec 26, 2019 at 6:19 am

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  Make sure you are logged in to the account that owns that site. If you no longer have access to that account, go to https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/

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  marcmarenco · Member · Dec 26, 2019 at 6:28 am

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  Thanks… I think I sorted it out. This was a very old account. I finally found it but then discovered I’d password protected pages on the original post… But somehow through the admin. page which I managed to find a password for… was able to get what I was looking for. Thanks again.