Can you restore a WordPress site that has been deleted?
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Can you restore a WordPress site that has been deleted? My site had a reference to another site usssegundophotos.wordpress.com that was deleted which is giving me an error message. I thought I copied photos from the deleted site to an album on my site, but I think WordPress just stored a link an not the actual photos.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I can’t undelete the old site, but we might be able to find your photos. Could you send me a link to a post that is missing a photo?
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Here is the link to the photos:
usssegundophotos.wordpress.com
Thanks for offering to help
Bob Price -
That is a link to the deleted site.
What I mean is, do you have a link to a post on your current site where you used to see a photo but now see a blank space?
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I am not sure I can provide what you want. Here is the page with the bad link: https://segundo398.wordpress.com/home/reunion-photos/
The link is “2012 San Diego, CA” . After the website with the photos was deleted the pages for the first two links on this page are missing when I display pages.When I created the “2012 San Diego, CA” page I copied the photos from the site that got deleted. My guess is that WordPress did not actually copy the photos, but just put a link from my site to uussegundophotos site. So when the site got deleted I lost the photos.
If you want to talk to me my cell phone number is [redacted by staff]
Bob
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Did you own the site that was deleted, or were you pulling photos to your site from someone else’s site?
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It was someone else’s site. The site was owned by Rich Peterson. I know him and am sure he will help anyway he can to recover the photos. Rich’s email is (email visible only to moderators and staff).
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The link you’re referencing for 2012 San Diego,CA is actually just a link to the deleted site (https://usssegundophotos.wordpress.com/). Since that site was deleted, the link will no longer work. If you would like, you can have the owner of the site reach out to us at help@wordpress.com, and we’ll see what we can do to help! We’ll need to speak to the site owner though.
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I sent an email to Rich Peterson the owner of the site. Rich sent an email to help@wordpress.com requesting recovery of the photos. Rich’s email is (email visible only to moderators and staff)
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Thanks! We’ll need to work this out directly with the owner of the site. I searched the emails, but I didn’t find one from that address. Can you ask him to make the subject line “Attention Jeremey”?
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Pete copied me on the message he sent. Unfortunately he misspelled the WordPress address suffix: “cpm” instead of “com”. I forwarded his message to help@wordpress.com and put “Attention Jeremey” in the subject field.
I also requested Pete to send you a new message with “Attention Jeremey” in the subject field.
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I just received a copy of the email that Rich Peterson sent to help@wordpress.com. The subject line is “Attention Jeremey”. Hopefully this will you allow you to proceed with trying to recover the photos.
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I just received a copy of the email that Rich Peterson sent to help@wordpress.com. The subject line is “Attention Jeremey”. Hopefully this will you allow you to proceed with trying to recover the photos.
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Found it! Thanks for your help. I’ll converse directly with Rich through that email thread.
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Thanks, please keep in mind the end goal for Rich and myself is to recover the photos so that I can reload them on the new website: segundo398.wordpress.com.
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Hi Jeremey,
Rich sent me a link to the photos you recovered. Thanks a lot for all of your help. Thanks to Liz as well.
I have a question about WordPress. When I built the album I thought I copied the photos from the usssegundophotos.wordpress.com site. Is it correct that since the photos were on another WordPress site all that was copied was a pointer and not the actual photos? Just trying to understand a little more of all WordPress works. -
No problem! Glad we were able to get this worked out.
I have a question about WordPress. When I built the album I thought I copied the photos from the usssegundophotos.wordpress.com site. Is it correct that since the photos were on another WordPress site all that was copied was a pointer and not the actual photos?
Correct – if you copy and paste a photo, you’re copying the original HTML for that image. The HTML for an image looks like this:
<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9357" src="https://allthetests.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/05.jpg?w=300&h=200" alt="05" width="300" height="200" />The important part is the “src” or “source” attribute. That basically tells WordPress.com where to load the image from. So, when you copied these images, they were still loading from the usssegundophotos.wordpress.com site. When that site was deleted, the src attribute no longer worked so the images didn’t work.
A better option would be to right-click the image, save it to your computer, and upload it directly to your site. That way, all of your images will be hosted directly on your site, and you don’t have to worry about third-party sites staying up and running!
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