Merging Two WordPress.com accounts
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I accidentally have two WordPress.com accounts. My original account only has one site, while this one has several sites. I would prefer all my sites to be transferred to my original account and then I would like to change the original account’s email to this account’s email after deleting. Is this possible?
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Hello there,
You can achieve this by firstly transferring the one site to your account by using this guide:
https://wordpress.com/support/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/After the transfer, close the account with the desired email:
https://wordpress.com/support/close-account/Then simply update the email on the account where you have all your sites:
https://wordpress.com/support/email-address/Let me know if this helps :D .
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Thank you. That is the steps I have found but the problem is on “My Blogs” page if I hover over the site no other options come up. There is no link to Transfer Blog.
My original account also is named just kelseegibbs while this one has a random string on numbers after my name. If I delete the kelseegibbs account then will I be able to update this account’s username to be kelseegibbs or is that account name blocked forever?
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Arg. Above is an example of my problem. I thought I was responding with the account I started the thread as, but now it’s back to my original account. My accounts keeping switching back and forth. Very frustrating, I just want one account. This one. But most of my websites are on the other account.
If I switch to only the other account and delete this one. Will my gravatar correctly update to my other account, or are there other things I will have to change?
Thank you for your help!
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Hello there again,
Hm, that’s odd, you should be seeing an option to Transfer Blog when you hover over the blogs on the My Blogs page. I will flag this post so that a staff member takes a look at it and can advise you better.
Just for reference though, if you get the Transfer Blog option working, I suggest you transfer the many websites to this account (@kelseegibbs) so that you don’t have to go through the hassle of updating your Gravatar and username.
And yes, you can change your username following this guide:
https://wordpress.com/support/change-your-username/Let’s hope we can help you solve this quickly.
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Thank you. I found a work around. I was able to link my new account’s jetpack to my single site, and then transfer ownership through the connection settings. I went ahead and deleted my original account @kelseegibbs. :/ I can’t change my username back for 30 days I think, and I’ll have to update my gravatar but it seemed easier than transfering 10 different websites rather than 1.
Thank you for your help.
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If it’s within 30 days, you can recover that deleted account by replying to the deletion confirmation email.
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