Transferring Your Blog to Another WordPress.com User or Account
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I have reviewed the instructions about how to transfer the blog to another account, but the instructions were incorrect. When I went to my blog page (signed in as the current owner) there was no option to transfer it. This blog was created by one of my students for my research lab. I need to be the owner of the site. Please advise on how this can be done. The site is pathways4youthresearch
This has been extremely frustrating!
Thank you,
SarahThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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This blog was created by one of my students for my research lab. I need to be the owner of the site.
Every blog has a sole owner and it is the person with the username account who registered the blog under that username account and associated email address. No matter how many blogs are created under any username account there will be only one gravatar and one primary blog that can be linked to that username.
It’s up to you to contact the blog’s owner and when you do and they consent they can transfer the blog to your username account. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
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This is exactly what we did – we logged in under the current owner – and it did not work. The transfer blog option did not show up on the my blog site
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When I went to my blog page (signed in as the current owner) there was no option to transfer it.
To transfer a blog from one username account A to another username account B you must first log out and clear you cache and cookies. http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/
Then you must log in under the username account A that owns the blog you want to transfer to the other username account B.
You add the other username account B as an Admin of the blog.
adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/Then you A can use this process to transfer the blog to that username account B instead http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
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Clicking this link should display all your blogs registered under the same username, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If you do not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then
follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibilityIf you have lost your log-in information you can visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
If required please complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery and submit it to the Account Recovery Staff so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums which are available to everyone with internet access.
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So, I am in Chrome and I cleared the caches and cookies as you suggested. We looked in at user A, but it still didn’t give an option to transfer the site. One thing is that the pages does not look like the page in the example. I did a screen shot but it doesn’t appear that I can include it here. I am using a free version. Could this be the issue?
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I’ll tag this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.
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Hi Sarah,
To transfer the blog, the current blog owner will need to log in and go to this page in the blog’s dashboard: https://pathways4youthresearch.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs
(That’s different from the My Blogs page here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ )
On that page, the current owner can hover over the blog and click the “Transfer blog” link that appears there.
Alternately, I can help the blog owner transfer the blog to you. I’ll just need that person to log in to their WordPress.com account and reply to this forum thread to confirm that request. :)
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I think we were looking at the wrong ‘my blogs’ page. We will try again – I will let you know if we need additional assistance. Thank you
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