Deleting a blog, but not removing the address

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  raffmelito · Member · May 21, 2013 at 10:22 pm

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  I created 2 blogs with very similar names and I would like to delete one of them. How can I do that?

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2013 at 10:34 pm

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  I suggest you just make the blog private and use it as a backup blog or for widget and theme testing http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  All blogs are independent and deleting one blog registered under any username account does not affect any others registered under the same username account.

  Provided you are logged in under the Admin username account that registered the blog in question you can delete any blog registered under that username by using these instructions. http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  After you do that if you cannot locate a verification email, look in your email client spam/junk mail filter for the email with the blog deletion verification link in it and click that link. If clicking it does not work then copy and paste the link into your upper browser bar and click.

  Deleted blog URLs are not recycled http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2013 at 10:35 pm

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  YIKES! Hang in there please.

  Deleting a blog, but not removing the address.

  If you don’t have a lot of content then you can quickly remove your contents by deleting them in bulk.
  bulk delete images & media http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/deleting-files/#bulk-deletion
  bulk delete posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit
  bulk delete pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/#bulk-edit
  Here’s how to permanently delete Trash >
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#deleting-permanently

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blog content does not remove it from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.