I'm the new owner of someone else's blog but can't access features

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    hstorm · Member ·

    Hi,

    I helped create the blog I’m working on about twelve years ago, back when it was a repository for a group of writers. The old owner decided to give up blogging a few months later, and the other writers gradually drifted away too. I am now the only one left working on it, but the old owner never got around to making me the ‘Administrator’. I only recently discovered that that means I have only partial control over features on the blog.

    I lost contact with the old owner years ago, and his contact details from the time now all appear to be out-of-date. I simply cannot get hold of him to ask him to change my ‘status’, and I don’t know what his password is. (I doubt he could remember it now either, even if I could get hold of him.) Is there a way I can have the administrator role reassigned to me without the old owner’s help? I realise I could create a new blog and transfer the content to it, but there are well over 500 posts on it, and it would be a very difficult task, so does anyone know if there is a way? Can WordPress’ owners do it? If there is a way to look, they’d just have to check the record of the old owner’s ID – ‘thegreatcritique’ – to see that he hasn’t logged in for an eternity, whereas I am logged in to the blog – https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/ – every day.

    Can anybody help?

    Martin Odoni

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

  • fstat · Staff ·

    Hi Martin,

    Only the owner or another administrator of that blog can make you an administrator.

    If you can provide any proof of ownership as outlined in our Account Recovery guide, then we can help you be an administrator of the blog. Here’s our Account Recovery guide:

    Recover Your Account

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