Removing blog
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Hi,
My organization had a very brief wordpress.com hosted blog, that hasn’t been updated since October 2012. The site admin is long gone, and we’ve been unable to find anyone with access to go online and disable it. Is there anything we can do to have the orphan site taken down? Or is it possible to have ownership transferred?
It lives at https://xxxxxx.wordpress.com/ It hasn’t been linked to from our website since 2012, but still shows up on the first page of google hits.
The organization is the [redacted]. Our main page is http://www.xxxx and we run three wordpress local installs in subdomains for microsites.
Thanks for any suggestions you can provide!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account.
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:
http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
* You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with the actual blog’s name in that URL.
After the blog’s owner logs in clicking this link should display all blogs registered under the same username account, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If the blog’s owner does not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then they need to follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibility
If the log-in information is lost they need to visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
If you check each and every possible email address and account and are not successful gaining access to the blog(s) then you must complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery and submit it to the Account Recovery Staff, and provide proof ownership, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access.
Support Staff cannot breach the privacy policy and provide the log-in information. You have to provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff to gain access https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/
If you cannot provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access, then you have reached a dead end.
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Additionally, is it possible to delete this post? I misread and thought I was filling out the email form. I would have significantly generalized it, if that were the case. Thank you!
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I’m sorry but here’s what the sticky post at the top of this support forums states:
Think before you post – this is a public forum. Forum topics will only be deleted at the discretion of Staff if they represent a valid security or personal safety concern. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-forums-community-standards?replies=1
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