Transfer blog ownership – employee has left company

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  rsrgray · Member · Jul 23, 2014 at 5:01 am

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  Previous blog owner/administrator has left company. How do we assign new owner? And if we remove them as administrator, will posts they made remain on the blog.

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

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  hafizr · Member · Jul 23, 2014 at 8:35 am

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  Hi,

  Blog ownership transfer can be initiated by the original owner of the blog. Here’s our support documentation explaining the steps:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-wordpress-com-user-or-account

  The steps are pretty self-explanatory, but if you need help, please let me know.

  And if we remove them as administrator, will posts they made remain on the blog.

  Here’s what’s going on during the transfer process.

  First, username A does the steps explained in the documentation page above to transfer the ownership to username B.

  Next, username A receives a confirmation email. Clicking the link inside that email will finalize the transfer.

  After this, username B becomes the owner of the blog. Also, all the posts made by username A automatically changes its authorship, so that now username B becomes their author.

  So to answer your question, the posts by username A will remain on the blog, but the author name will be username B. You can always delete them afterward if you don’t want the posts to show up again.

  Does this answer your question?

  If there’s anything else I can help you with, do let me know.

  Cheers,

  Hafiz