Do I need old URL?

• 

  georgegold792 · Member · Sep 2, 2015 at 4:05 pm

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  I started my blog as, let’s say, “abc.wordpress.com.” I woke up one morning and decided to change my blog to, “xyz.wordpress.com.” Done, no problem, went through the search engine update stuff, all is going well.

  Should I delete (just to be efficient and clean up) “abc.wordpress.com” ?

  If yes, how do I do that, and be sure that “xyz.wordpress.com” is ok, all the data remains etc. And yes, I won’t ever need “abc.wordpress.com” again.

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

• 

  timethief · Member · Sep 2, 2015 at 10:25 pm

  • Copy link

  To delete a WordPress.COM hosted blog you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to navigate to Dashboard > Tools > Delete Site.

  The guide is here 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

• 

  georgegold792 · Member · Sep 2, 2015 at 10:42 pm

  • Copy link

  ok, tx.

• 

  timethief · Member · Sep 2, 2015 at 10:43 pm

  • Copy link

  You’re welcome.