Deleting a Free WordPress Site
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I have a website – https://votevanessafleisch.wordpress.com – that was created by a company that is no longer in business. The company didn’t provide me with any login information to the site but I need to take this site down as it’s causing conflicts with the upcoming election.
How can I delete this site completely? I don’t need any files or backups for it.
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Hi there,
Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner and it is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and associated email address.
Only the blog’s owner can delete the blog, transfer blog ownership of any blog and upgrades to another WordPress.COM username account and associated email address by making them an official user of the blogs ie. an Admin first, and then using this process https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-wordpress-com-user-or-account
See also:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/my-upgrades/#transferring-upgradesBottom line: the company does not own the account. The blog’s actual owner must be contacted and Staff will not do the contacting.
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How to delete a blog
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and navigate to Tools → Delete site
http://INSERT_BLOG_NAME_HERE/wp-admin/tools.php?page=delete-blogTo prevent accidental or inadvertent deletion of blogs, there are multiple warnings given that blog deletion is permanent and irreversible. Lastly, a verification link is sent in an email to the email account associated with the username account that registered the blog and it must be clicked to delete the blog. If clicking that link does not work then copy and paste it into your upper browser window and click. Once the link has been clicked the URL is forever gone.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/Alternatively, to change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
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