WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Delete Inactive Blogs http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-inactive-blogs-1 WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Delete Inactive Blogs en Sun, 19 May 2013 05:13:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 jenia on "Delete Inactive Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-inactive-blogs-1#post-1152478 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:49:03 +0000 jenia 1152478@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Correct, once you choose to permanently change a blog URL, you cannot go back and since URLs are not recycled, nobody else can have it either. Same for deleting a blog, once you delete a blog, it cannot be restored. Sorry I was not able to help you more in this case.

]]> crashcourseinself on "Delete Inactive Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-inactive-blogs-1#post-1150928 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:56:49 +0000 crashcourseinself 1150928@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks, Jenia. So, to be clear, basically once I change my URL (say, from MickeyMouse to MinnieMouse) I can never go back to the old URL (MickeyMouse), even if I've retained it. Is that correct?

And once I release an old URL (MickeyMouse), it's permanently lost as they're never recycled, correct?

There's no point in me doing a site redirect upgrade. No one has the disabledseekingmymuchness URL.

]]> jenia on "Delete Inactive Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-inactive-blogs-1#post-1150607 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:30:52 +0000 jenia 1150607@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I suggest you look into the Site Redirect upgrade. If you set it up, it will automatically forward the visitors from disabledseekingmymuchness.wordpress.com to acrashcourseinself.wordpress.com (or any other existing address).

]]> crashcourseinself on "Delete Inactive Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-inactive-blogs-1#post-1149764 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:19:33 +0000 crashcourseinself 1149764@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks so much for your help. I was worried about this - in trying to fix something I made it worse.

Let me ask you this: I have disabledseekingmymuchness and I would like to move it to acrashcourseinself which I have saved. Can you advise me as to how I can change disabledseekingmymuchness over to acrashcourseinself without repeating the same problem?

Thank you.

]]> jenia on "Delete Inactive Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-inactive-blogs-1#post-1149379 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:04:38 +0000 jenia 1149379@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there, when you changed your blog's address from seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com to disabledseekingmymuchness.wordpress.com, you let go of the old address (seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com). There was a warning presented about that address not being available again, and you confirmed that this is what you wanted to do. We don't restore deleted blogs.

What you can do is choose another address for your blog, or you can map a custom domain (I see that seekingmymuchness.com is available) and nobody will know which .wordpress.com you are using. Here is how to register a new domain: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/register-domain/

]]> crashcourseinself on "Delete Inactive Blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-inactive-blogs-1#post-1147899 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:37:21 +0000 crashcourseinself 1147899@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi.

Here's what I did -- I have the site seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com. I saved the site name in case I wanted to use it again. I changed the site name to

    disabled
seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com while I decided what to do with the blog. I've decided to keep the original name/blog so I'd like to go back to seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com.

Here's my challenge...
- When I try to change

    disabled
seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com to seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com, I can't because WP is treating the old site as legit (because I saved it).
- When I try to delete seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com so I can free it up and change
    disabled
seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com to seekingmymuchness.wordpress.com, I get warnings about deleting my blog and I'm afraid I'll delete my entire account including all past posts.

So...clearly, I've totally messed up.

Any ideas on how to fix this so I don't lose the content I want to keep and so I can go back to the original URL?

Thank you.

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