making sure deletion will work like I need it to

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  vkhanson · Member · Apr 4, 2014 at 3:57 pm

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  I need to delete the content of my bygonebasics.com wordpress site. It has gotten really corrupt after a theme change and a shopping cart plug-in installation. It is down and unuseable. I have downloaded previous copies and will use one of my other blogs to assist me in transferring my text back to the new pages. But I want to be sure I can just start building my site from the moment I delete it’s content. I don’t want to lose my wordpress /domain relationship.

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  thatrobyn · Member · Apr 7, 2014 at 4:51 pm

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  Hello there.

  Before you do any deleting, I suggest first disconnecting the mapping between your domain and your self-hosted site. DO NOT DELETE THE DOMAIN. That was important enough, I felt all caps was necessary :)

  Change the name servers of the domain, bygonebasics.com/, to WordPress.com:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Then map your domain, bygonebasics.com/, to your WordPress.com site. You can do that in your Dashboard here: bygonebasics.wordpress.com/wp-admin/. Click Store, then Add Domain, and Map a domain you already own.

  Once you’re certain that all your connections are up and running properly, then you can decide what to do with the self-hosted site accordingly.

  Let me know if you have any questions at all. Sorry to hear your self-hosted site has caused these problems!