Recover deleted site
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Hello I have deleted my blog olhardesatento.wordpress.com and now I would like to reuse that address.
Is it possible?
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I am afraid that is not possible.
This is why we warn that the URL will be unavailable for use if deleted.
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Hum ok
But it is not possible to remove the Url from database or something?Now, as is, is only used to be an empty page…
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HELP.
Site CDRC.Wordpress.com was hosted by GoDaddy.
They screwed up and the site went down April 2.
They failed to refresh.
Domain owned by Non-profit.
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Hi adrflack, the site “cdrc.wordpress.com” is in the same situation as described above, it was deleted, and there isn’t a way to recover it.
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adrflack, unfortunately, no, deleting a site permanently removes it and you’ll never be able to re-use its WordPress.com address. You can try a different address or get a custom domain.
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I’m confused. Are you saying that once a wordpress address is assigned, and that account is deleted (however by the mistake of GoDaddy), it can never be reused. Ever? Never ever?
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adrflack, one thing is the WordPress.com address and another thing is an account or domain at GoDaddy. If you delete a WordPress.com site, hosted at WordPress.com, like it was done with “cdrc.wordpress.com”, you will not be able to use this address again. That can’t be done by GoDaddy, it was done by the user, who was the site’s owner.
Maybe you had a custom domain, like “.com” or “.org”, at GoDaddy and they deleted or canceled the domain, is that it? If so, you might be able to recover the domain, but you need to check with them.
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It does seem extraordinary, given the number of people who are facing the same problem, that WordPress doesn’t implement various degrees of site deletion rather than defaulting to the nuclear option. How about three choices: Delete content; Delete everything but keep the address (i.e. ‘reset’ or ‘start over’ as though this were a brand new site); Delete absolutely everything permanently and forever with no hope of recovery. That would surely make the severity of using the nuclear option clearer to users.
It seems to me that lots of people might want to delete their site’s content entirely but retain the URL for re-use. In my case I wanted to place a simple redirect to our new site in place of the old content. Why would WordPress make it so hard to achieve this?
I must say that the warnings that the domain will disappear completely forever are inadequate. It isn’t at all clear that the domain’s address will vanish along with the contents. The implication can certainly be drawn from the warnings that the address will not be available to anyone else. It isn’t anywhere near clear enough that this applies to the site’s ‘owner’ too.
How many people need to have the same issue before WordPress realises that it’s a problem they need to do something about?
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Not being able to recover a deleted site (the subdomain specifically) seems to be a very artificial limitation. It seems fairly common for users to accidentally delete their sites not expecting that the subdomain is gone down the rabbithole forever. Yes, you can blame the user for not reading the freaking message (RTFM), but that’s not good design.
It is kind of lame that the deleted subdomain becomes a dummy page. Please fix this.
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@brucecoker we actually do offer those three settings:
https://wordpress.com/settings@santhoshsram we’ll update you here if this is changed. Cheers :)
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