Signing Up with old WordPress Email address not working

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  donperidone · Member · Jul 2, 2020 at 4:51 am

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  Hello! I first signed up here on WordPress using my personal email address but then I transferred my site to another email address. Now, I want to sign up for a new account using the first email I used but it says it’s not available anymore/user does not exist. Please help me. Thank you!

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  fstat · Staff · Jul 2, 2020 at 12:28 pm

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  Hi there,

  What’s the email address you’re trying to use?

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  donperidone · Member · Jul 3, 2020 at 2:48 pm

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  Hello! Thank you for your response but it seems that I have resolved the issue. Turns out, I didn’t transfer ownership to another email. I only changed the email address in the account settings, and I thought that was already the way to transfer my blog site to the email I wanted. So I am still using the original email I signed up with, after all. No wonder it said email wasn’t available. I’ve also figured out how to transfer a blog site and I did it successfully yesterday. Thank you very much and sorry for the trouble! 😅

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  supernovia · Staff · Jul 3, 2020 at 5:41 pm

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  Ah, glad you were able to sort it out!

  We’ll include links in case anyone else runs into this topic while looking for help.

  Here’s how to transfer a WordPress.com site to another account:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/

  And, emails can be updated here:
  https://wordpress.com/me/account

  If the address is in use already, try using another browser to log in with that address. You can then change its address if needed, or transfer to that account, etc.

  Have a fabulous weekend!