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  davidwilsonjournalism · Member · Mar 26, 2017 at 1:55 am

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  Hi I recently changed the name of my wordpress blog – now if someone tries to access an old post they get a message saying ‘The authors have deleted this site.’ Can I salvage those old post links so they redirect properly?

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 26, 2017 at 2:03 am

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  No that’s not possible, if you mean can wordpress.COM Staff restore deleted site content. However, the content was indexed by search engines like Google if they are in their cache, you may be able to copy paste content into new posts and pages The same goes for Internet Archives Wayback Machine. https://archive.org/web/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 26, 2017 at 2:04 am

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  NOTE: Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and the only exceptions are made are for URLs that were deleted 2 or more years ago. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

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  davidwilsonjournalism · Member · Mar 26, 2017 at 2:05 am

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  Thank you for your quick and clear response. What if I revert to the original blog name, if that’s possible?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 26, 2017 at 2:07 am

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  It’s not possible. See my second comment.