Delete A Non-Existent, Self-hosted Blog From WordPress.com My Sites?

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  swaruprajsekar · Member · Nov 27, 2014 at 8:35 pm

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  Hi there,

  I am writing into this forum after doing quite a bit of groundwork on this subject and hoping that someone knows a way out.

  Here’s what:

  For many years, I used a “self-hosted” blog which connected with my wordpress.com account in order to use services like Akismet and Jetpack.

  Today, the blog no longer exists as I have ended my server subscription in favor of moving all activities to wordpress.com premium. However, an instance of the old self-hosted blog still appears inside my WP.COM members area (https://wordpress.com/sites).

  So I looked up support documentation on “permanently deleting a site”, and found this URL:

  Delete a Website

  As per its guidelines, a user will need to access the wordpress DASHBOARD to delete website. After deletion, it will disappear from My Sites.

  But… In this case, I no longer have access to the dashboard as I have closed my server subscription and the self-hosted site longer exists. Clicking on an any manage link from https://wordpress.com/sites shows a dead page.

  How is possible to DELETE this instance from My Sites?

  I appreciate any help this.

  – Swarup

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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2014 at 8:37 pm

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  You can’t delete them but Staff can so post the URLs as I tagged this thread for Staff assistance. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.

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  swaruprajsekar · Member · Nov 27, 2014 at 8:41 pm

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  Wow! Thanks timethief! Your reply was almost instantaneous! :)

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  swaruprajsekar · Member · Nov 27, 2014 at 8:41 pm

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  Wow! Thanks timethief! Your reply was almost instantaneous! :)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2014 at 8:42 pm

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  I answer thus question many times every day. :) Just confirm the URL you want deleted and Staff will delete it.

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  swaruprajsekar · Member · Nov 27, 2014 at 8:47 pm

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  Here are the URLs to be deleted:

  (1) http://swaruprajsekar.com

  (2) http://landing-page-success-guide.com/
  (Oh gosh. Don’t even know how this one got here. It was years ago when I was testing.)

  Many thanks,
  Swarup

  P.S. I plan on upgrading (1) to wordpress premium.

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  swaruprajsekar · Member · Nov 27, 2014 at 8:52 pm

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  EDIT: Upgrading (1) to premium services after the instance gets removed. Thanks again timethief.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2014 at 8:52 pm

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  You’re welcome.

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  clickysteve · Staff · Nov 28, 2014 at 8:42 am

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  Hey there,

  I’ve gone ahead and removed both of the sites listed from your account.

  Cheers!

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  swaruprajsekar · Member · Nov 28, 2014 at 9:00 am

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  That’s fantastic I really appreciate it, thanks clickysteve! My Dashboard looks nice and clean now.