Legacy Account Recovery
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I created a new account under eglish5. I visited eglish.wordpress.com today and realized that I setup that account a VERY long time ago (before your Proof of Ownership existed) and must have forgotten about it. The email address associated with it should be something I can recover from, but I need to know what was the domain that email was at. I don’t need the whole email address, just the email domain so I know where to login at to retrieve my account. Thank you!
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If I had to wager a guess, it was probably when I got out of school, like 2003 to 2005 when it was setup. I’d like to use my account, instead of this newer one, eglish5.
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Hi there,
We are not able to help here in the support forums, as verifying account ownership requires us to ask you to provide info that is best not shared in this public venue.
With this in mind, please fill out this form here to the best of your ability: https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery
This will send all the info you have to our account recovery team, and from there they will contact you directly to assist you in regaining access to the account that owns eglish.wordpress.com.
Hope this helps!
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As I stated earlier: “I setup that account a VERY long time ago (before your Proof of Ownership existed)”. Your online form doesn’t satisfy my situation, which is why I’m reaching out this way.
Please adivse.
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If you no longer have access to the email address for that account and have no other proof of ownership then we cannot give you access. We don’t make any exception to this.
If I had to wager a guess, it was probably when I got out of school, like 2003 to 2005 when it was setup.
At that point in time WordPress.com did not even exist yet, and that’s not when the site in question was created.
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I might have the time frame because it’s been so long ago. But WordPress has been around a lot longer than you think. I’ve been following CMSs for quite some time.
And I didn’t say I didn’t have access to the email, I asked if I could get the email address’ domain. Like if you said hotmail, then I can check my hotmail. I ran a few different domains over the years and it might be connected to one of the previous domains I managed.
Suffice to say, if it’s this much work to properly read my posts, I wouldn’t trust this group and I’m glad I never chose any commercial purposes for this software (which I was willing to do now due to market dominance).
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Due to privacy and legislation, WordPress.com can’t reveal information about an account.
Wordpress.com got started in November 2005. WordPress.org was created in May 2003 but wordpress.com and wordpress.org are completely different.
I found a wordpress.com account Eglish and website https://eglish.wordpress.com/ which wa-ere created in Dec 23, 2009.
What you could try: log out from current eglish5 and log in again using the username eglish, next click Forgot password and check your email accounts.
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