How can I log in when my login email is not recognized?

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 3:16 pm

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  (I’m writing from my husband’s login.) How can I log in when my login email is not recognized? I have not logged in for a year, but I can still see my sight online. http://www.heatherkeew.wordpress.com
  Blog url: http://watchsong.wordpress.com/

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

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 3:27 pm

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  You will need Staff help. In order to help you get access to your blog Staff need one of the following things in order to correctly identify you as the blog owner:

  1. an email from the email address associated with the account or revealing what that associated email address was

  2. the wordpress.com API key for your account. This was included in your welcome email with a note to keep it safe. Please do not post the API key here.

  3. if you have purchased any upgrades for the blog a transaction number

  This thread is flagged for Staff attention.

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 3:36 pm

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  Do I post those as a reply to this thread or somewhere else for Staff help?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 3:42 pm

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  Please just wait for Staff to enter the thread and assist you.

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 3:43 pm

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  Ok. Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 3:45 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 24, 2012 at 10:21 pm

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  Do you have access to either of those three items? If so, which ones?

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 10:32 pm

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  I believe only the first one: an email from the email address associated with the account or revealing what that associated email address was.

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 10:42 pm

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  Do you need me to forward it to you?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 24, 2012 at 10:54 pm

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  That particular email address is adm[…] (at) sgblue.com

  Does that sound like something you have access to?

  If so, I’ll send an email over to it and you can reply to confirm ownership.

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 11:18 pm

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  I believe that is the email of the guy who originally set up my wordpress site. But I would log in with my own personal email. If you send the email to him, however, I can contact him and we can figure it out.

  Once I can log in again, can I change the “ownership email” to my own?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 24, 2012 at 11:28 pm

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  That’s the only user on the blog, so I’m not sure how you were able to log in with something else.

  Since you have his email address, I recommend getting in touch with him.

  He can transfer the blog to your current account following this guide: http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 24, 2012 at 11:31 pm

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  Ok. We’ll give it a try. Thanks much!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jul 24, 2012 at 11:50 pm

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  You’re welcome!

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 4:32 pm

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  Come to find out that the email adm[…] (at) sgblue.com belongs to a client of my former webmaster. He is baffled as to why that is the email associated with my WordPress account.

  I have an email from WP for the requested administration email address change to my current address. I’m not sure what went wrong after that.

  Is there an easier way to fix this? Would it help if you knew the email address that was supposed to become the new admin address?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 4:36 pm

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  @paulkeew
  When we register a username account here we provide an email address and that email address is our unique identifier. http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-address/

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  paulkeew · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 4:44 pm

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  @timethief
  I see. So the email address macmanx gave me is the key to recovering the blog. Well, then I guess we will keep trying to crack this open. Thanks again!