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Forums / How to close a blog which's email and password are forgot?

How to close a blog which's email and password are forgot?

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    b1l1m · Member · Jan 12, 2016 at 10:05 pm
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    Hello,

    I opened a blog 5 years ago.I forgot it’s email and password.

    There are just two posts on the blog.I do want to close it.

    How can I close it ?

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    timethief · Member · Jan 12, 2016 at 10:07 pm
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    You will have to recover the account and then you can delete the site.

    There are three questions you need to answer yourself:

    1. What is the exact URL of the wordpress.COM hosted site in question?

    2. Exactly which wordpress.COM username account registered it?

    3. Exactly which email address was used when wordpress.COM username account was registered?

    Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account.

    You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard.

    Clicking this link should display all blogs registered under the same username account, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden

    If you do not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then
    follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibility

    If the log-in information is lost visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

    If you check each and every possible email address and account and are not successful gaining access to the blog(s) then please complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery and submit it to the Account Recovery Staff, and provide proof ownership, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums which are available to everyone with internet access.

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    b1l1m · Member · Jan 12, 2016 at 10:16 pm
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    I cannot recover it.Because,wordpress wants proof of ownership.

    I know the url of the blog.Probably I know the username. Closing a blog which’s psswd and email are forgot shouldn’t be hard.There are just two nonsense posts which are posted 4 years ago.

    What should I do ?

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    timethief · Member · Jan 12, 2016 at 10:34 pm
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    If you cannot provide proof of ownership to Account Recovery Staff https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery then you have reached a dead end.

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    b1l1m · Member · Jan 12, 2016 at 10:45 pm
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    What a helpful answer! I do not want it back,I just want to close the fucking blog.There is just two nonsense posts.

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    timethief · Member · Jan 12, 2016 at 10:49 pm
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    It is unfortunate that my correct answers did not please you.

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  • email address unknown
  • lost password

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