Your WordPress.com account can manage multiple websites under one login. This guide will show you how to access your sites and move your sites to other accounts.
When you sign up to WordPress.com, you will create your first website as part of the signup process. You can then create as many additional sites as you wish under your one account (each site requires its own plan.)
Each site will have at least one user (i.e., the owner), but it’s possible for a site to have more than one user with access to edit the site. When you create a new site, your account is automatically the site’s owner and administrator.
If you have been invited to administer another WordPress.com site owned by someone else, you can accept the invitation to manage the site with your WordPress.com account. This allows you to conveniently manage a site owned by someone else, separate from any other sites you own (i.e., the other site owner cannot access other sites you own unless you specifically invite them to a site.)
A website can have a different site owner and subscription owner. For example, you may have created a site (making you the owner) but invited another admin to join the site. That admin may have purchased a plan or domain for your site, making them the subscription owner. As the site owner, you cannot renew or cancel a subscription owned by another admin — the subscription owner is responsible for subscriptions they have purchased. Instead, ask the subscription owner to renew or cancel it (or ask them to transfer the subscription to you.)
On the Sites page, you can view all your websites in one place. The Sites page will display any sites you own and also sites you have been invited to.
To navigate to the Sites screen:
- Visit any of your sites’ dashboards.
- Click the “All Sites” option in the upper left corner.
You can also use the Sites page to add a new site. Find a site by using the search option or sort your sites. You can filter sites by privacy status (private, coming soon, public).
If you wish, you can make this screen your default homepage in Account Settings. This means you will first see the Sites screen when logging into WordPress.com:
A site’s ownership can be transferred to another administrator on that site. See our Transfer a Site to Another WordPress.com Account guide for step-by-step instructions.
A site’s subscriptions can be transferred to another administrator (whether they are the owner or not):
- To move a domain from one admin to another, you can transfer the site itself and the domain will move with it. If you need to move the domain only, while remaining as the site owner, see our Transfer a Domain to Another WordPress.com Account guide for step-by-step instructions.
- To move a plan from one admin to another, you can transfer the site itself and the plan will move with it. If you need to move your plan only, while remaining as the site owner, contact support for assistance. Transferring a plan from one admin to another is not possible without the current subscription owner contacting support. Alternatively, the subscription owner can cancel the plan and the new subscription owner can purchase a new plan.
If you are not sure which admin on your site owns its subscriptions, you can view a list of all administrators on your site by navigating to the Users section of your dashboard.
If your website appears to be missing from your account, you can try the following:
- You might be viewing the wrong site in your account. Use the All sites option to check the other sites in your account. You may have multiple websites in your account with similar names, so view each site to find the one you’re looking for.
- You might have more than one WordPress.com account. Log out of the account you’re signed into, and try logging in with any other email addresses you may have used to sign up to WordPress.com.
- If you’re not sure which email address(es) you may have used to sign up, check your known email inboxes for any correspondence from WordPress.com (renewal notices, promotions, signup emails, or receipts.)
- If you don’t recall the password for the account you’re trying to log into, you can reset your password by clicking the Lost your password? option from the login screen.
- Your site may not be hosted with WordPress.com. To access your WordPress.org website, you can add
/wp-adminto the end of your site’s domain to log into your site’s dashboard. Install the free Jetpack plugin to manage your site in your WordPress.com account. - For plugin-enabled sites, the Jetpack connection to your website may be broken, making your site appear missing from your dashboard. Resolve Jetpack connection errors with these steps.
