deleting blogs

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  sgolisti · Member · Jun 29, 2016 at 8:13 am

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  hi, it’s taken me some time to decide what I want to blog on. How do I delete blogs that I don’t use anymore?

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

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  omkarbhagat · Member · Jun 29, 2016 at 9:16 am

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  Hi @sgolisti,

  You can find all the instructions you need on deleting a blog here –
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  But before you delete, have a look at these links as well –

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

  I hope this helps :)

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 29, 2016 at 9:55 am

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  @sgolisti – further to what @omkarbhagat said, because blog names are not recycled here (or at least not immediately and only if they don’t present a technical problem) you may consider making the sites you no longer need Private to use as a test site or leaving a note in a “final post” that you’d be willing to transfer the site to another user if you don’t need it any longer.

  Once you actually delete the site, the site URL also becomes unavailable.

  Changing Privacy settings: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  Transfer site to another WPcom user: https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/

  In either case, you may want to clear out the existing content first. Here are the instructions for doing that: https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/

  Cheers!

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  omkarbhagat · Member · Jun 29, 2016 at 9:59 am

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  @justjennifer,

  That was super helpful. I didn’t know there was a support document on transferring a site to another WordPress user. Now I know :)

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 29, 2016 at 10:00 am

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  @omkarbhagat You’re very welcome. :D