Can I recover my blog if it has not been used since 2013?

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  mylifeasfood · Member · Sep 26, 2016 at 4:40 am

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  I had an account in 2013 and I have interest in starting it again. When I go to the url it comes back fatal error. Can I recover my content or renew it and still have all of my data or is it lost now?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  geoffreyshilling · Member · Sep 26, 2016 at 10:28 am

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  Aloha mylifeasfood, It looks like you are working with a self-hosted WordPress.org site instead of the WordPress.com-hosted version supported here.

  Learn more about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  With that being said, as long as you have had your account active since 2013, the data should still be there. The error could be caused by a conflict between old plugins, the theme, or WordPress itself.

  I would start try the first topic on this page, “Cannot Access Dashboard”
  https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/giving-good-support/pre-defined-replies/

  If that doesn’t work, I recommend searching on the WordPress.org support forums for similar questions. If you cannot find anything that works, you can start your own thread. The forums are completely separate from each other, so you will need to register an account there if you haven’t done so already.