How can I merge two WordPress.com user accounts?
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I have a ‘work’ account and a ‘personal’ account. However, I don’t want the accounts to be separate anymore, and since there’s a very strict against closing accounts, merging is the only other option.
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Hmm, I get the impression I’m going to get an answer that will make me frustrated. No merge, and I have to mangle one account to make it appear as if it’s inactive, right?
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You can transfer a blog to another username account. See here please: http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
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Perhaps a more detailed response is what you are seeking.
The email address registered with your WordPress.com username account is your unique identifier. Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner and it is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and their associated email address.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-address/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-notifications/The blog’s owner must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog and purchased upgrades to renew them, or to transfer the blogs and the upgrades to another username account, or to use the lost password link, or the account recovery form, or to delete site content, or to delete the site itself.
You must log out and clear your browser cache and cookies before logging in under another username account.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache
https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookiesThen see here please:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
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Hmm, interesting. I appreciate that you tried to answer my question in such detail, and so thoroughly.
I should have mentioned that my main concern is with Gravatar, since it requires WordPress.com identity to authenticate. I think the answer in my case is simply to deauthorize Gravatar for the account I don’t want to use, and then simply add those old email addresses to the Gravatar account associated with my “personal” account so I can maintain control over the icons already out on the web under my “work” address.
My apologies for letting you assume I was concerned with blogs. Am I on the right track for “merging” Gravatar profiles?
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A gravatar account and a wordpress.COM account are one in the same thing. After you transfer the site to your other wordpress.COM username account and update the information on your gravatar page you can simply hide your other gravatar account.
How to Make Your Gravatar Profile Private
http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-privacy/ -
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