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  carlaptgtr · Member · May 8, 2021 at 7:44 pm

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  Okay in 2012 my sister opened a wordpress on my (email visible only to moderators and staff) email adress.
  Now I am busy doing a Digital marketing coarse and need to create an account from scratch to complete the coarse. Now since I already have an account I am not sure what to do? Please help

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  therefoiam · Member · May 9, 2021 at 9:25 am

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  Hi there,

  The way I see it you have two options to be able to start a new account from scratch because you can not reuse an email address that’s already in use. You can read more about that here : https://wordpress.com/support/close-account/#re-using-an-email-address

  Option 1 is to delete the account already made. That will free up your email address but only after 30 days will you be able to start a new account. More about that here: https://wordpress.com/support/close-account/

  Option 2, the best option possible, is to change the email address associated with the already made account. You will then be able to use your email address for a new account. You can read more about updating an email address here: https://wordpress.com/support/email-address/

  Please let us know if you need further help with this.

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 10, 2021 at 4:45 am

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  Hi there,

  Gmail has a cool built-in feature that allows you to create as many aliases as you want on your existing Gmail address.

  For example, if you have the address (email visible only to moderators and staff), you can create (email visible only to moderators and staff), (email visible only to moderators and staff), etc. All those aliases will go to your existing Gmail inbox, but services like ours will see them as different emails. So you could use this to create a new WordPress.com username account without needing to first delete another or get a new email, just by using a Gmail alias instead.

  Hope this help :)

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 10, 2021 at 4:46 am

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  (P.S., this is also handy when you give your email address to other companies – create an alias containing the company’s name, and if you subsequently start getting spam emails coming into that alias, you’ll know which company sold your data.)