HELP! Changed my username and now my blog seems to be gone

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  mostlyhealthyliving · Member · May 7, 2015 at 2:31 pm

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  I’m not super savvy (obviously) but here’s what I managed to do. I changed my username this morning and now my blog has totally disappeared. I can still see the stats for it, but I can’t see any of my posts. Is there anyway I can undo this? I was finally starting to get some followers and traffic and it breaks my heart to think it might be gone.

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  mostlyhealthyliving · Member · May 7, 2015 at 2:49 pm

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  To clarify, I’ve been reading a lot about deleting blogs and how those can’t be recovered, but that’s not what I did. I just changed my username (to my blog name: “mostlyhealthyliving”) but now all the content is gone from that blog.

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  jsase5 · Member · May 7, 2015 at 3:12 pm

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  Hey there!

  Reference this article to see if it will help solve your problem.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

  It sounds like you might have created a new, empty blog when you created a new username.

  Hope this helps!

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  mostlyhealthyliving · Member · May 7, 2015 at 3:30 pm

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  I think that’s what I may have done. But my new username happened to be my old blog name and once I changed my username, it seemed to have replaced my old content-filled blog with a completely empty one at the same address. I’m recovering cached entries from Google while they exist and already starting to rebuild but it’s a big loss. Wish there was some way to just restore it.

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  mostlyhealthyliving · Member · May 7, 2015 at 3:56 pm

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  To make things extra, super-fun, I don’t seem to be able to publish any posts to the new empty mostlyhealthyliving.wordpress.com either…

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  auxclass · Member · May 7, 2015 at 4:08 pm

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  Flagged for the staff to take a look at what happened

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  mostlyhealthyliving · Member · May 7, 2015 at 4:18 pm

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  Ok… it seems like it’s back now. Although super-buggy (e.g. when I go to make a new post or update and post and it gives me the option to view it, it tells me it can’t find the page). Just backed everything up.

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  alexjgustafson · Member · May 7, 2015 at 4:42 pm

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  Looked into this and there was definitely a blog duplication issue during your name change.

  I’m going to report this to the developers, as I think there may be some new bugs here, but your sites should be all set now. :)