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trying to delete a site

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    kitplumridge · Member · Mar 8, 2019 at 12:41 am
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    I need to delete a site as I am infringing copyrite and I cant get in to delete the site. Cna anyone help me. This is the wordpress site. https://sunbrella.wordpress.com/
    thanks Kit

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    kruttikaphalke · Member · Mar 8, 2019 at 5:17 am
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    Hi there ,

    Deleting a site permanently removes it and you’ll never be able to re-use its WordPress.com address.

    You can empty and delete your site. Please refer the below links for more detail:

    Empty Your Site to Start Fresh

    Delete a Website

    It is possible to reverse a site deletion for the first 30 days after a site is closed.
    Once the 30 days have passed, all of your site data is purged and cannot be restored, and the site address is deleted and cannot be reused.

    Thanks.

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    justjennifer · Member · Mar 8, 2019 at 5:51 am
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    and I cant get in to delete the site

    Hi there, it looks like you need to be logged in with a different username account to the one you are posting here in the community forums kitplum

    If you still have access to the email address you used to register your site, you can reset your password following this guide: https://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#lost-password If you don’t remember which email address you used, you can try all your known email addresses in that form or if you had email notifications of new comments on your site, you could try leaving a comment or filling out a contact form on that site and then see where the email notification goes.

    Barring that, you’ll need to recover your account following this support guide https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/

    Lastly, deleting a site from WordPressdotcom does not immediately remove it from search engine results. It can take 4-6 weeks before they recrawl and reindex your site and remove it from their cache. If you need that taken down sooner, you’ll need to follow the procedure for removal at each of the search engines’ support. WordPressdotcom has no control over that.

    Hope that helps but let us know if you have any other question about this.

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