I changed my blog address and want to revert it.
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Hi,
I tried to change my blog address and apparently changed my username as well and I want to undo it all. I have my primary blog still and want to reset everything back to seamatach. I want to make seamatach.wordpress.com my primary blog again and I Want to return my name to @seamatach instead of it being @thepathtotheveil. Please help.
I meant to just create a new blog and not to change everything. I still have the blog seamatach.wordpress.com as one of my blogs. I am hoping I can modify everything back. Can anyone help me?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you’ve changed your blog address, you probably did something similar to the steps outlined in this support article:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/Notice how in step 6, you’re asked what you want to do with your username. Can you remember what you did here?
As for you moving back to the old blog address, that’s quite possible, provided you can see your old blog address when you click on the My Sites link in the upper left corner. If so, please follow these steps as outlined by staff member @kokkieh:
An address change cannot be reversed, so if you want to go back to using the old address you’ll need to manually move everything back.
Your posts and pages you can export from the new site, and import back into the old site:
Your theme, settings, widgets, menus, etc, you’ll need to set up again on the old site the way you had it. Easiest is to open the new site’s customizer in one browser window and the old site’s customizer in another browser window, position them side by side on your screen, and just copy everything over.
Once you’ve set up your theme and migrated your content back to the old address, let me know and I can move your followers and your stats back as well. Likes cannot be transferred back.
You can find the original post here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-one-of-my-old-site-addresses?replies=10#post-2900104
Let me know if you need more help or have any questions related to this.
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I think I selected to change the current user name because I couldn’t get it to work for some reason with my other email address.
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I see. Then I’m afraid you can’t get that user name back again. But by following the steps from the staff member above, you’ll at least get your old blog up and running again.
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And by up and running I mean fill it with content (technically it’s already up and running since it’s already a live site).
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Hi folks, @jjberg83 is correct: we don’t have any way to get the username back once changed. You are welcome to change it to something else though if you’d like, or you can change its display name as you’d like at https://wordpress.com/me/account .
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