Old WordPress blog stolen by paid managers

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    barbaratziporah · Member ·

    My paid host has been MN Host, bought out by Living Dot at some point. I’d been paying two ten dollar monthly fees until apparently these combined into a single ten dollar per month fee. My blog began in 1999 after I became disabled by poisoning and the EPA requested I become an activist. The blog got a lot of attention and I was invited to give testimony before Congress and the State of New Hampshire. My support for the first responders after 9/11 was published in Sierra Club magazine. After the person who’d established the blog had to move away from this work, I hired the new host to manage it. Now, billing dot informed myself they neglected to bill for thirteen months, from 12/1/21 through 12/31/22 and to pay them $130 over six months time. I went to my banks and validated payments went through in 12/21 but only one payment taken in 20/22 (March, my only contact with the service company when I lost my password). The current correspondent is now calling myself fraudulent for taking my bank’s word over their personal records and threatening to cancel the blog as of Friday. I’d already offered full payment to be given to them in March. The activist blog spanning decades will disappear like so many EPA records have gone missing. How might WordPress retrieve the blog in order for myself to deal with their negligent billing and slanderous written arguments? I’ll pay all outstanding bills but don’t trust the staff there now to keep the blog intact. The validity of contracts in America has died but the WordPress reputation remains intact. Reply to my Twitter feed at ArmchairActiv

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    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to moderators and staff)

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    Hi,

    That sounds like a very frustrating ordeal!

    However, I’m afraid there might be some confusion here about “WordPress”…

    There are two things commonly called “WordPress”.

    1. WordPress the free open-source site building software from WordPress.org (this is what you used to build your website).
    2. WordPress.com, a web host for sites using WordPress software.

    The two are related, but completely separate entities. Please read this page for more info on how they are related:

    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

    We here at WordPress.com do not have any of your site data if it was hosted with a different webhost, which it sounds like yours was. While we’d love to help you move your site to be hosted here with us, you would need to sort things out with your former host at least to the extent that you could get a backup or export of your current site data. And probably make sure that you still own the domain registration for your site’s URL.

    Let us know if anything is unclear or you have any further questions.

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