How to Regain Access to a WordPress Blog If the Registered Email Has Been Delete

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  nataatmadja · Member · May 24, 2026 at 3:33 pm

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  I created a blog on WordPress around 2014 using a Gmail account. Due to work commitments, and especially because I was managing several other personal blogs, I stopped updating that WordPress blog. Since the blog was inactive, I naturally stopped logging into the registered email account as well. Around 2015—I don’t recall the exact date—I remember receiving a notification from Google stating that my account was scheduled for deletion. At the time, I assumed my account had been hacked. Having had bad experiences with hacking before, I simply accepted the loss of the email account as a common occurrence.

  Only recently did I realize that I lost that Gmail account due to inactivity. That mistake has caused me to lose access to the personal blog I started on WordPress.

  I have already tried filling out the recovery form. The problem is, since I lost the email account a long time ago—before two-factor authentication or modern authentication codes were standard—I do not have the credentials requested by the WordPress system.

  The authentic proof of ownership I hold consists of the files on my hard drive, the blog designs I created in CorelDRAW, the Word documents of the uploaded content, and similar materials.

  Please advise me on how I can regain access to the blog I created.

  Thank you for your response.

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

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  gainselfworth · Member · May 31, 2026 at 2:54 am

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  If you have done the all the recovery steps and still unsuccessful.

  Unfortunately if WordPress.com can’t verify your identity there’s not much they can do to give you access again. Your options at this point are asking support to set the site to private or just starting fresh with a new account.

  Sorry it’s not the news you were hoping for. Link is below for reference:

  https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/verify-ownership/#if-ownership-cannot-be-established