How to delete another administrator from my blog?
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When my blog was first started, end-2012 / start-2013, I got help with the first faltering steps from a friend. That person then invited me as an administrator. They are still also an administrator. But, we are no longer on speaking terms, having fallen out quite badly a few months ago. I want to remove them from my blog – i.e. take away their access – but, when I tried to do this a couple of months ago, the system would not let me do so.
Relations have continued to deteriorate and I am concerned that this person may use their access to damage my blog. I want to remove them before this happens.
Please help!
AL FranklinThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
The long and short of this is that you cannot remove the blog`s owner ie. the Admin that registered the blog.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. 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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The short answer is that since the other person seems to own the blog – you can’t remove them they need to transfer the blog to you – see above for how they can do that – – for you to force them to give you the blog or for WordPress.COM to give you the blog would take a U.S Court Order
Best for the time being to protect the content is to start a new blog (Dashboard >> My Blogs >> Register new blog)
Set the blog to private (search engines & WordPress.COM do not like duplicate content in the public (in fact mirror blogs are against the Terms of Service) ) – Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> Only Visible to those I choose
Then transfer the contents from the old blog to the new blog
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-between-wordpress-com-blogs (pay no attention to the change address thing, just use the Export / Import option)
Then and only then, after all the content has been moved and verified – go back to the original owner that you are not on speaking terms with and see what can be done
This way you do loose the address / URL but not the content
If they will not transfer the blog to you – you can delete the content from the old blog and make your new site public –
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Hey
Thank you both. These clarified the issues, and helped me find a fix. Job done!Much appreciated.
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We are in a situation where the site originator no longer works at the company, nor has any contact in order to change the administrative status of the site. Automatic renewal is in that person’s name and set to expire next week. We would like to keep the name of the blog, if possible, rather than transfer to a new blog and are just trying to change the automatic renewal payment information. Is there any possibility of upgrading to the business level, then downgrading within 48 hours to keep it at premium, with our updated credit card?
Thanks!
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@phippsdirectorscied
You are not going to like the answer to that question. See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-delete-another-administrator-from-my-blog?replies=6#post-2106189 and remember that there is only one owner of any blog, no matter how much you or others think you have invested in it.
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