Remove obsolete blog from 2011
-
I am trying to stop Google from linking to old blog that is invisible on WordPress dashboard. I can not remove old blog.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
If you would like to delete your WordPress.com site, there are options and instructions for doing so here:
Please bear in mind that once deleted, that site’s WordPress.com URL will become permanently unavailable for future use. If you feel that you might need that URL again in the future, you might want to choose one of the other options listed on the the page linked above.
Please let me know if you have further questions or if anything is unclear.
-
Thank you rootjosh.
Your suggestion will only delete my current blog. (litapernablog.wordpress.com) My old blog is invisible on the WordPress site. Google directs to my old, obsolete, 2011 site. I can not remove it from Google or WordPress. Notice the different addresses. I can not delete the one below. I have tried everything. It does not show up on the WordPress site…only Google link.
-
Just to be clear: WordPress only shows the current new blog I am working on, not the 2011 blog. It is invisible on the WordPress site
Google links to the old blog. I can’t get rid of it.
I will give you my first born son if you can help me resolve this.
-
The issue is that the WordPress.com user account that you are posting from is not the owner or admin of https://litaperna.wordpress.com/ .
So you must have ended up with a second WordPress.com account at some point. You will need to log into the other account in order to delete https://litaperna.wordpress.com/.
-
I don’t understand.
What other account?
I can’t log in to any other account.
What other owner?
I am confused.Please explain. You are the only one who has come up with an answer but I don’t know what to do.
-
I don’t understand.
What other account?
I can’t log in to any other account.
What other owner?
I am confused.Please explain. You are the only one who has come up with an answer but I don’t know what to do.
-
The WordPress.com site https://litaperna.wordpress.com/ is not owned by the WordPress.com user account you are posting from. So, that means that at one point you had a different user account. You might try using old email addresses in the password recovery system:
-
You found the answer. It makes perfect sense now. I did have a different account….and when I returned to WordPress recently, I changed my password on the account because WordPress didn’t recognize my old password. My username is the same.
So does a Password change, change the account?
And what should I do now?
My email address is the same. -
If I reset my password again, it won’t help. I just got a new one last week.
What I think I need, from what you say is my original password from 2011 and I don’t know what it is. I’ve been gone since then.
Thank you for helping. I feel so stupid.
-
You do not need a password reset on this account that you are posting from, you need a password reset on the old account.
Each WordPress.com user account has an email address associated with it. Each email address can only be associated with one WordPress.com user account. This is why I suggested trying old or secondary email addresses in the password recovery system, to see if any of them are associated with the old account you are trying to access.
-
I am so screwed. I tried my alternate, gmail account to determine if that was the one I used. No.
I’m wracking my brain.
I only had one other email account, but only for a few months My private practice failed. I couldn’t get clients, and I only used the email account one or two times.
I’m going to see if I have any old business cards.
I had a thought: Under settings there’s a request to delete a blog.
What if I put in the address of the blog I want to get rid of? Would that work?
What about if I submit the phone number I used for the private practice? -
You cannot delete a site that your user account is not an owner of. The system will not allow it.
-
Thanks. I have tried everything I can think of.
So have you.I’m working on a new blog and Google is still directing to the 2011 one.
Any suggestions?
-
-
I have sent an email to the email address associated with the WordPress.com user account that owns https://litaperna.wordpress.com/. With any luck, you will receive the email and we can go forward from there.
But if not, I’m afraid there is nothing additional I can do.
-
I know you tried.
This searching (in vain) for a lost and forgotten email has brought up one of the worst times in my life back in 2011: I was so broke; I was trying to get a job; trying to build a private practice; I was frantic, barely making rent, on food stamps and almost out of my mind with worry.
I wish I’d saved the old email but I can’t blame myself. I trashed all my counselor stuff and just quit.
So I’m bummed out that I can’t erase the final memory of that time and start fresh.
Thank you for trying.
-
-
-
Rootjosh:
I can only reply here to your message on my Yahoo account I also checked my Gmail account. No message.Where ever your emails are landing, that account is probably dead after no activity for 6 years.
I tried what I thought was once possibly an AOL account but nothing I input was recognized. I probably only used it once or twice.
Looks like we’re at the end of the road.
Thanks for trying.
Lita
- The topic ‘Remove obsolete blog from 2011’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 