Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
That’s a limitation on the forum software and is used to prevent spam – Once an email has been registered to an account on the WordPress.org forums, it cannot then be registered to another.
Ah, Andrew, I suppose not. Yet I receive response notifications at an email address not allowed for logon (unlike the other ones). Interesting. IOW, responses arrive at one, logon is allowed at three others!
Revisiting How can I delete my wordpress account [closed]: I changed the email address as is allowed on the profile screen. Fine. I then found I could logon via both addresses (the old and the new).
Why all this? I had thought, simply, to change the email address so I could close the former email account itself…and simplify my life by having fewer email addresses. Seeing, though, that the old email address was still available for logon, I went for the stoopid route. In the profile, I changed the email address to a “junk” address. My bad. Now, logon is allowed at three email addresses.
In addition, I had thought “gracefully” to establish a new WordPress support account using the desired (second) email address. Oops! “Taken”. So now, my WordPress support account allows logon at three email addresses.
One might with some validity think an email address change in the profile screen would not be possible if, as you say, a form account “cannot be registered to another.” It’s a great life if you don’t weaken, but who the heck wants to be strong?
In absence of a solution, I will go ahead with my personal plans and delete the email address to which the WordPress support site is sending responses. Too many email addresses to keep track of…simplicity is better!
As I cannot register a new account with one of the other addresses (erroneously) associated with that WordPress support account, I suppose I must forgo email responses. I will pursue other avenues for WordPress support and, if I absolutely mist post here, login occasionally to watch for responses.
