I locked myself out of an old wordpress account like a dummy, please help

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    walkermorrow · Member ·

    Ok, so I I set this website up with an ancient old gmail address back when I first started up this little business, and I gapped out and didn’t switch my log-in info over to my new email address when I changed emails years ago. The old gmail account has since been deleted because of inactivity, or I might have even deleted it myself, I can’t remember.

    I’ve left this website inactive for a very long time as free advertising but it badly needs to be updated and I would like to log in again and update the website. Is there anything I can do? I have not set up two-step verification and I have no purchase histories or anything like that associated with the account. I just used an old wordpress account that I had set up years ago to do blogging and commenting in a long-forgotten part of my life.

    Any help would be appreciated.

  • aleone89 · Staff ·

    Hello there,

    Many thanks for reaching out.

    Ultimately, you would need to try and recover the email address associated with the WordPress.com account or try and locate/remember the login details.

    Please see this guide on how to recover a WordPress.com account. https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/

    Please also see this guidance for when an account be recovered: https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/#if-ownership-cannot-be-established

    I hope this helps.

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