Removal of admin

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  spencer0220 · Member · Feb 24, 2020 at 11:47 pm

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  Hi,

  This is a new wordpress account in my new, married name. I want to delete my old account, which is a second account, and keep the wordpress site intact.

  How do I do this? If I delete the old account OR the new one, doing so for either says I’ll lose the site. But every time I try and remove the old account’s admin rights it says error.

  Help!

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  spencer0220 · Member · Feb 24, 2020 at 11:49 pm

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  By the way, BOTH accounts have admin rights on one blog and I’m desperate to keep the name

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Feb 25, 2020 at 9:08 am

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  Hi there!

  If you want to delete the account that owns the site, you’ll want to transfer it first to the new account. Here’s how you do it:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/

  After the site has been transferred and the new account is the owner of the site, you’ll be able to safely close the old account.

  I hope that helps :)