How to Recover Old Sites

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    ezekiel1961 · Member ·

    Hi,
    When I had this account years ago apparently I was able to house all of my sites under one account.
    I tried to create separate accounts for forvertunes and user name zekemcdaniel however, they are housed as pages under the username promopusher. Please tell me how to retrieve forevertunes and zekemcdaniel as separate accounts. When I tried to create accounts I received a message the usernames are not available.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Those usernames are not available, because they are reserved – when you create a specific free WordPress.com address, the matching username is automatically reserved so only your account can ever use that username.

    To create those usernames, follow these steps:

    1. Log out of the promopusher account (or open an incognito browser window), and create a new account at https://wordpress.com/start/account/user/ using any random username, NOT the one you want.

    2. Once the new account is created and verified, log into promopusher again, and transfer one of the sites you want to move to the new account:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/

    3. Then log back into the new account, go to https://wordpress.com/me/account/, and change the username. As the new account will now be the owner of the WordPress.com address, you should be able to change the username to match.

    Change Your Username

    Repeat the process with the other site you also want in its own account.

    Keep in mind that each separate account will also need its own unique email address.

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