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An arrogant employee deleted a blog that did not belong to him, but to his employer. It represented the work of many folks, including me…
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Sorry to hear about the inadvertent deletion of a website with multiple contributors. However, only a site administrator can delete a site, and that is why WordPress recommends that any site have one and only one administrator.
From the User Roles support page:
An Administrator has full power over the site and can do absolutely everything. Administrators can create more Administrators, invite new users, remove users, and change user roles. They have complete control over posts, pages, uploaded files, comments, settings, themes, imports, other users – the whole shebang.
Nothing is off-limits for Administrators, including deleting the entire site. This is why we recommend having only one administrator per blog.
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Please help!
An arrogant employee deleted a blog that did not belong to him, but to his employer. It represented the work of many folks, including me…
I, too, had a login. It’s below, from you…
Your new WordPress.com username has been successfully set up.
You can log in with the following information:
Username: cfarnsworth2015
Password: *****
at http://wordpress.comCheck out your new Reader at http://wordpress.com to find and follow your new favorite blogs!
Use the friend finder to scan your contacts and find their blogs, or explore our hand-picked content in Freshly Pressed (http://wordpress.com/#!/read/fresh/)
and Recommended Blogs (http://wordpress.com/#!/read/recommendations/). Want to see what’s hot? Take a gander at some of our most popular topics:
http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/.If you’re just getting started, there are tons of helpful resources available and easily searched for on our support site and forums:
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The blog I need help with is wvnccacademicsupportcenter.wordpress.com.
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I was also an administrator – can I not recover the BLOG when I too, was identified as an administrator – what gives one administrator the right to delete a blog without the other administrator’s okay?
From: WordPress.com Support Forums [mailto:(email visible only to moderators and staff)] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 3:27 PM To: CJ Farnsworth Subject: [WordPress.com Forums] BLOG
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Sorry to hear about the inadvertent deletion of a website with multiple contributors. However, only a site administrator can delete a site, and that is why WordPress recommends that any site have one and only one administrator.
From the User Roles support page:
An Administrator has full power over the site and can do absolutely everything. Administrators can create more Administrators, invite new users, remove users, and change user roles. They have complete control over posts, pages, uploaded files, comments, settings, themes, imports, other users – the whole shebang.
Nothing is off-limits for Administrators, including deleting the entire site. This is why we recommend having only one administrator per blog.
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It was not inadvertent – it was quite deliberate and malicious.
You’re right. That was a misuse of the word “inadvertent.” I meant something more like “unfortunate,” or “unwelcome.”
I was also an administrator – can I not recover the BLOG when I too, was identified as an administrator – what gives one administrator the right to delete a blog without the other administrator’s okay?
WordPress.com policy gives any administrator that right. From the User Roles support page, again:
Nothing is off-limits for Administrators, including deleting the entire site. This is why we recommend having only one administrator per blog.
You may call for staff attention if you like by adding a “modlook” tag to the sidebar of this topic/thread.
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You’re right.
I meant that you are right regarding my use of the word “inadvertent.” I did not intend to comment upon whether the deletion was “deliberate and malicious,” since I know nothing about the purpose of or intention behind the deletion.
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If all else fails and you have no backups, you could at least partially reconstruct the blog with the help of Google cache and/or Wayback Machine.
To see some cached snapshots of the blog, enter this in Google search. Be sure and include the quotation marks:
“http://wvnccacademicsupportcenter.wordpress.com/”
I’m seeing 5 cached posts at the moment. If these are helpful to you, be sure and save them as they could disappear at any moment.
The Wayback Machine is currently giving a “server down” error message, but claims to have archived the blog on April 17, 2015:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150417225537/http://wvnccacademicsupportcenter.wordpress.com/
But such error messages from Archive.org are not good news. There’s no guarantee that snapshot will ever become available.
Best of luck!
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Tried the cached snapshots…still get:
“wvnccacademicsupportcenter.wordpress.com is no longer available” screen
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Hi there,
As musicdoc1 mentioned, nothing is off-limits for site administrators, including deleting a site permanently. I’d recommend using the tips dawntreader72014 mentioned to try to recover the content from that site. For example, I found some cached pages in Google with this search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:wvnccacademicsupportcenter.wordpress.com
You can click the down arrow to the right of each search result to see a cached version of the page there.
If you want to recreate that site, you can also head to the signup page to create a new site with a new address that you own.
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Yes – I understand that I can create a new blog – but that does not recover the work of the many other people who contributed to the deleted blog. It also does not provide the followers of the previous blog with an uninterrupted subscription….
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Once I locate a cached page – there is no way I can transfer that over to a new blog? Or recover it?
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Hi there,
Once you locate a cached page, you’ll have to copy and paste the contents into a new blog. There isn’t a way to restore the blog as it was before — deleting a blog is permanent and can’t be undone.
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That’s what I mean – you can only access the first 5 or 6 sentences…
At the cached version of the tag archives page Studying | Academic Support Center. the first post is truncated (with a “Continue reading” link that will fail). However, the next seven posts are evidently displayed in their entirety, with the exception of missing images on one of them.
The same thing happened to me once. Yes, it may prove impossible to recover the entire site, but with luck, persistence, and not a little toil, you may be able to recover 80% or more of it. -
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