OMG
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Although I’m sure I know the answer, I have to ask the question. Is there anyway to recover deleted blogs? I inadvertently deleted my entire blog. Eighty-nine posts over about a 3 year period. Word count was enough to comprise two novels. OMG!!! Help!!! Or at least tell me I’m an idiot. Thanks
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I presume you’re not talking about https://danpschaller.wordpress.com/ which isn’t deleted (but is set to private). It’s a long shot but you could put the address of your deleted secret site into the Wayback Machine. http://archive.org/web/ There is the possibility that they could have archived your blog at some point in the last three years.
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Thanks. No luck. I’ve an email into WordPress, we’ll see. Not expecting a positive result.
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Out of curiosity what was the address of the site you deleted? Its my understanding that the robot.txt file is to prevent search engines from crawling a website, such as one set to private like danpschaller.wordpress.com. But I guess if the deleted site was set to private too it would never have been crawled by the Wayback Machine anyway.
PS: Anyone else reading this, if your WordPress.com content is important to you, take regular .xml export files. You might never need to call on them but they are a reassurance for “just in case”.
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Hmmm…I did’t delete the site, just the posts. I did find an address to send an inquiry to WP, so maybe I’ll get a reply (good or bad) direct from the horse’s mouth. I can’t even spell IT and am lucky that I’m at least talented enough to turn my computer on and off, so I think I will await their reply. Thanks for all of the interest and advice.
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You said in your original post that you had “deleted my entire blog” and as https://danpschaller.wordpress.com/ wasn’t deleted I had to assume you were talking about a different site. Now you say you didn’t delete your site at all……….just the posts. Are they still in the trash bin or did you delete them from there too? Even if you had but you hadn’t set the site to private there wouldn’t have been a robots.txt file and you may have been able to recover some content from the Wayback Machine.
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Thanks for all of the help and suggestions y’all…thankfully 2 of my boys (now adult men) are IT guys who live and work in DC. One works for Microsoft and the other for a defense contractor. The youngest one is flying in today just to spend 2 days fixing, tweaking, and updating our stuff at the house. I will turn him onto this project, as I’m just an old guy who has a hard time even spelling IT. He always just pushes me out of the chair and says, “Geeze Dad, just let me do it for you.”
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