renew old website

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    bwildnfree · Member ·

    I haven’t renewed my website for a long time, but now I would like to restore it
    is it possible to continue it without losing all content?
    if I can restore it with all the contect, I would like to renew it
    my domain is: bwildnfree.com

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Yes

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    helper-heroponriki · Member ·

    Hi there:

    To avoid confusion, there are three different “WordPress” at play here:

    1. The free, open-source WordPress software which powers your website.
    2. WordPress.org which is the open-source project that works on the WordPress software and where you can get the software for free to use on your own hosting provider.
    3. WordPress.com which is a managed hosting provider of the WordPress software and with whom you’re contacting now.

    The only WordPress.com hosted website under your account is the one found at https://bwildnfree.wordpress.com/, which has no content.

    Pulling up your site URL in the Archive.org Wayback Machine, it looks like you had a site but not hosted here.

    While that domain is available to be purchased again, if you did not download a full backup of your site (content + database) before you let it expire, the hosting provider you were using would have purged your site content from its servers once you stopped paying for it. Unfortunately, that means your site content is lost.

    You could use that Archive.org link to copy content from posts and pages and recreate them on a new site, but there’s no simple way to do that other than copying and pasting individual articles and finding/reuploading any media.

    I know that’s not the best news, but I hope that clarifies things.

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