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Forums / How do I change the creator on a blog?

How do I change the creator on a blog?

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    sharajj · Member · Oct 23, 2014 at 8:03 pm
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    I want to change the creator of the blog I’ve created to a different account. It’s for a volunteer organization I help with and I need to have the creator’s account associated to a more neutral address than my personal email.

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

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    timethief · Member · Oct 23, 2014 at 8:04 pm
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    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 associated email address. You need to contact the blog’s owner and have him transfer the blog to you or at least make you an official user of the site.

    Below is what the blog’s owner must do.

    You 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 transfer the blogs and the upgrades to another username account.

    To transfer a blog from one username account A to another username account B you must first log in under the username account A that owns the blog you want to transfer to the other username account.

    Then you add the other username account B as an Admin of the blog.
    adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
    user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

    Then you A can use this process to transfer the blog to that username account B instead http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account

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    timethief · Member · Oct 23, 2014 at 8:06 pm
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    You need to contact the blog’s owner and have him transfer the blog to you or at least make you an official user of the site.

    Of course that doesn’t apply when you are the blog’s owner and already have another username account. Sorry I didn’t delete the sentence above before clicking submit.

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    granbygg · Member · Oct 23, 2014 at 8:09 pm
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    I figured it out. That’s exactly what I needed. Thank you :)

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    timethief · Member · Oct 23, 2014 at 8:10 pm
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    You’re welcome and best wishes. :)

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