{"id":19016584,"date":"2026-09-10T12:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-change-account-email-address\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T12:40:32","slug":"cannot-change-account-email-address","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-change-account-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot change account email address"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi<br \/><br \/>I&#8217;m an admin on a website (not the site owner) and have changed my email address.  I tried to change it on my wordpress profile and it says:<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you change this, an email will be sent at your new address to confirm it. <strong>The new address will not become active until confirmed.<\/strong><br \/>There is a pending change of your email to xxxxx<br \/><br \/>But I never receive the email to confirm the change of address.  I&#8217;ve tried cancelling and refreshing but I still don&#8217;t receive the confirmation email.<br \/><br \/>I can&#8217;t even receive email notifications of this support post as they will go to my old email address which I no longer have access to.<br \/><br \/>Please advise a workaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19016584","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19016584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19016584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19016584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}