Help needed to delete WordPress website permanently
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In November 2017 the committee of the charity Diddlebury Village Hall in Shropshire, England, decided to terminate its contract with the host of the website http://www.dvhc.wordpress.com as the hall had been rebuilt and the information on the website was either out of date or irrelevant. A new website has now been constructed as the source of information relating to the hall, but searches are still being directed to the old website.
The previous website host (1and1) have told me I must contact WordPress to have the site permanently removed. There is nothing (as far as I can see) that deals with this problem on the WordPress support forums.
Can you help, please?
Dr Jayne Kirk
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Hello there,
re: deleting WordPress.COM hosted sites
All sites are independent. What you do on one or to one has no impact on any other site. To delete a WordPress.COM hosted site 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/ note the alternatives provided there.
Prior to deletion warnings are issued. Deleted wordpress.COM blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and the only exceptions are made are for URLs that were deleted 2 or more years ago. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
https://wordpress.com/settings/delete-site/NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com
*Replace “NAME_OF_BLOG” with the actual name of the blog in the URL above.
If you are not logged in under the correct WordPress.COM username account then clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies prior to logging into another account
You can update your email address here https://wordpress.com/me at any time.
If you did not register the site under your username account and do not have the required access, then you need to contact the person who registered the account and site under it, and have them act or transfer the site to your username account by using this process. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
If the login information has been lost go to
https://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/
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