Deleting old site

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  colinnic · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 1:53 am

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  A while ago I changed the name of my blog but kept the same account. The old address was manordispatches.wordpress.com and I changed it to thereiseveryquest.wordpress.com.

  When I go to “my sites” there is still visible the “manordispatches” site, and I realized today that when I commented on another blog, clicking my name/avatar linked me to the now empty and dead “manordispatches” site instead of the one I am using.

  Can I go to Tools>Delete Site and delete the old site, even though it’s the one I changed the name from and not worry about my current site being altered?

  Thanks

  Colion

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  colinnic · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 1:53 am

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  I spelled my own damn name wrong. Ignore that mistake, ha.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 1:57 am

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  The old address and the new one are separate, but it’s probably best to go to your account and set your new URL as primary, then set the old blog to Private. Deletions are irreversible, and one slip of a finger can really screw you up.

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  colinnic · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 2:06 am

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  Right–thanks. That fixed it. I was missing that I had to change my account settings in the wordpress account area, rather than WPadmin.

  Cheers