Recover/Delete My Old WordPress from 5 years Ago

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  juanjesusrmh · Member · May 8, 2020 at 8:00 am

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  Hello WordPress,

  I am contacting you about a WordPress I made years ago for my English Honors course in high school. The site has not been touched since I took that class sophomore year (around 5 years ago).

  I went through every email I have and I cannot seem to find the one that made the website in the first place. As it was a while ago, I fear it may be one that I no longer use. I can prove the validity of my ownership for sure! If I could be told the email used to log in to the account, I might be able to access the login information that way.

  I think I used one of two emails to create the site.

  Either:
  I made an email specifically for this website, and I have a good idea of what it may be or

  I used my school provided email address, ####(email visible only to moderators and staff) to create it. This is the worst case scenario as this is an email address provided to me by my former school district. It was deactivated after I graduated in 2018 so I hope this isn’t the one used!

  I want to take my site down as it is really embarrassing now in college. A few of my friends have found it and made memes out of it. For the sake of my pride, is there any way I could get my site taken down? I can take any and all steps necessary in proving that I made / own the site if it’s possible for me to do so!

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  deancroyal · Staff · May 8, 2020 at 5:31 pm

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  Hi there – You’ll want to get the account recovery process started in this case. I’ve linked to that below. Be sure to read what’s at the link below, then go to the account recovery form and fill that out as best you can. :)

  https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/#account-recovery-form