Staff: Please change username to match URL of principal blog

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  landet · Member · Oct 2, 2011 at 5:48 pm

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  Hi,

  I have two blogs (http://landet.wordpress.com and http://sonofjon.wordpress.com) registered under the username ‘landet’. http://sonofjon.wordpress.com is my principal blog. I don’t use http://landet.wordpress.com anymore.

  I would like change my username to match the URL of the principal blog (http://sonofjon.wordpress.com), i.e. change username ‘landet’ to ‘sonofjon’. But when I try to change the username on the Personal Settings page the system says that the username (‘sonofjon’) already exists.

  Can you please help with this? Thanks.

  If possible, I would prefer that this is resolved within my current account, registered with email andreasjon AT gmail DOT com.

  Thanks,

  Andreas J.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  landet · Member · Oct 7, 2011 at 8:59 pm

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  I apologize for bumping this, but it has been five days since posting this. I noticed these type of requests have generally been addressed within hours… Did I post this in the wrong forum? I can’t seem to post in the “Staff Questions” section. I’d appreciate if anyone would hint how to go about to get help with this. Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 7, 2011 at 9:04 pm

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  I’m sorry you have been wiring. Here’s the link to contact Staff and provide all details to. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ After you use the searchbox, under the search results, at the bottom of the page there will be a section that says “Have you found the answer to your question?” You can choose either “Yes I found the answer to my question.” or “No I didn’t find the answer to my question and I would like to contact support for help.” The no option will reveal the contact form.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 8, 2011 at 10:10 pm

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  Blognames are the same as usernames as far as available is concerned.

  This means that your username cannot be changed to sonofjon as unfortunately that name is already taken by the blog.

  To clarify, usernames can become blognames (because we reserve the blogname upon registering), but blognames cannot become usernames.

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  landet · Member · Oct 12, 2011 at 2:30 pm

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  @timethief: Thanks, I have re-submitted my request to support.

  staff-blorbo: I don’t think that is true. I know I can’t do it myself, but this thread suggests that staff can help getting it done:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-change-my-username-but-when-i-try-to-register-i-cant

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 12, 2011 at 7:04 pm

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  We used to be able to do that, but it’s no longer a possibility at this time.

  If you’d like to check back in a month or two, we may be able to do it again.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 12, 2011 at 7:08 pm

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  It would be a nice feature – I registered a blog with a blog name that I use to post on the internet from time to time be nice to match them up.