un protecting a protected blog

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  byandreawatson · Member · Mar 5, 2019 at 2:23 am

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  Years ago I had to make my site private because I had a creepy stalker. How do I change that back. When people try to find me it says ‘protected blog’. But when I go to the privacy settings, there is no option there.

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

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 6, 2019 at 8:42 am

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  Hi there,

  Are you speaking of http://fivewatsons.wordpress.com/? You should be able to change this at My Site ->Settings.

  After clicking My Sites, click Switch Site and make sure you have the correct site selected before going to the Settings page.

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  byandreawatson · Member · Mar 6, 2019 at 6:11 pm

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  When I click my sites, and switch sites to fivewatsons.wordpress.com, there is not option to choose the settings page.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Mar 6, 2019 at 7:00 pm

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  That’s because you’re not using the right WordPress.com account. You need to sign out of byandreawatson and back in with the account that owns fivewatsons.wordpress.com. Once you are signed in correctly you’ll be able to update that privacy setting.

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  byandreawatson · Member · Mar 6, 2019 at 7:04 pm

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  But I own the account. I don’t know how to log in any other way.

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  supernovia · Staff · Mar 6, 2019 at 8:54 pm

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  Hi, your “byandreawatson” account is listed as an author on that site. It would not have permission to change the privacy settings for the entire site.

  Can you log out, and log in again with the other username? You have more than one.

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Mar 6, 2019 at 8:59 pm

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  Hi there,

  You’re only an author for that site and that role does not have the ability to change the privacy settings on the account. You’ll need to log into the account that owns the site to update the privacy settings. Do you happen to remember any other user or email address that was connected to the account outside of the one you are contacting us from?

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  byandreawatson · Member · Mar 6, 2019 at 9:39 pm

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  Ohhhh. Ok. So I logged in through my husbands email. That worked! He’s the one who set it up for me in 2011. How can I change my role? or do I need to? Is there anything else I won’t be able to do as “author”? Just wondering for future issues.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Mar 6, 2019 at 11:11 pm

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  If you plan to use the byandreawatson account then I would suggest that you transfer the blog over to that account. Then you’ll be the owner of it, and it will be disconnected from his account. Does that make sense?

  Here are the instructions: https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/

  Write back to us here if you need anything else.