Moved from wordpress.com to .org but old .com website still seems to be active?!
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About a year back I had a friend move my wordpress.com site to a wordpress.org site (www.saharwahbeh.com).
Recently I started doing some online housekeeping only to find the old outdated http://www.saharwahbeh.wordpress.com site is still live. I logged into the account to see why and hopefully just shut it down. However once I log in there is no sign of the old blog… no files, no posts and no way to delete it.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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I did include a link to the blog I am discussing: http://www.saharwahbeh.wordpress.com
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The suport bot means well –
Is your old site showing up in searches? If so your best bet would be to purchase the domain forwarding upgrade to send any traffic from your old site to your new site – that also teaches search engines that you have moved.
You can also delete all the content and leave a single Post that says “I have moved”
You can also set the blog to Private – – Dashboard >> Settings >>
We don’t recommend you delete the old blog as the domain name is gone forever – the blog can just sit there waiting for you to think of a new use for it
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Yes the old site is showing up in searches.
I used to have the domain forwarding but recently did not renew it, which is probably why I am only now noticing the site is still live.
What I would love to do is delete the content and set the blog to private but I have no way of doing that. When I log into my dashboard there is nothing there… no files, no where to set the blog to Private. My only options are ‘Profile’ and ‘Personal Settings’.
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The old log in with the wrong user name will get you every time :)
You be welcome & good luck
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