I don't know anything about WordPress and I want to remove a site that was put up a few years ago. The person who put it up is no longer around and I don't have access to anyone who knows anything about how to do this.
From what I've read on this forum I need to use PHP among other things. I'm sorry that i am ignorant of all these things but I don't even know what that means.
Is there a way to simply remove the site if I am not already familiar with how to build and alter websites? So far I have removed everything, when I try to log in it says that there is no such account, which would be great but when I try to go to the new site (that I did on iWeb - I've done other iWeb sites and not run into this before) it defaults to this page: http://unitystage.org/
I got this advice "In the root of the server where you had WordPress installed you should find a index.php file which you want to delete. What remains is the index.html (.html not .php) from iWeb for the iWeb website to be reachable by entering http://unitystage.org"
I don't know how to find the root of the server where we had WordPress installed.
Anyone know how I can either delete site or find root of server?
Thanks for any help you can provide
[resolved] Trying to cancel/remove/delete site (13 posts)
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Gabe Young
Posted 4 months ago #The root can really be anywhere. You should contact your hosting provider and they can walk you through the shut down process.
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Posted 4 months ago #Thanks, Gabe.
So my web host provider (Go Daddy, in my case) should be able to tell me how to shut down a WordPress site while still keeping the domain name (URL) active for the new site?
Or, alternatively - they can help me figure out how to find (or at least look for) the root?
That would be so very wonderful - I will give them a buzz tomorrow.
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Posted 4 months ago #Yes, GoDaddy should be able to walk you through how to do that. Remember that you are paying them for this service. Those should not be challenging questions for them.
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GoDaddy will be able to tell you how to delete all the content from your website. Tell them that :)
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Posted 4 months ago #Thanks Gabe and Ipstenu!
You were right!
I was a little skeptical about asking Go Daddy to remove a WordPress site for me but based on your assurances I called them and they took me through all the steps (there were a LOT of them - seemed extremely complicated for a novice like me - I never would have been able to figure it out on my own) and my problem is now resolved.
I am so very happy - thanks for pointing me in the right direction!!! -
harooki2
Posted 2 months ago #My Tools menu selection has no Delete Site option. What is the workaround to delete a site?
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That option is for WordPress.COM installs.
If you want to delete the site, delete the database and all the files from your server.
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Posted 2 months ago #I think this is hosted by WordPress. How do I get to that file server?
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If the option's not there, you're not on WordPress.com and thus not hosted by WordPress.
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Posted 2 months ago #Obviously, I don't know how this works technically. However, this is what I recall. We started out as a WordPress site with wordpress.com on the end of the URL. Then we paid two charges to change that.
The first says Domain Mapping for http://woomammdotcom.wordpress.com $12.00. The second says Domain Registration – woomamm.com mapped to http://woomammdotcom.wordpress.com $5.00. I have no record of another host hosting this site. I thought that charge was for WordPress hosting.
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That site is hosted with wordpress.com, so you need to ask your question on http://en.forums.wordpress.com/
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http://woomamm.com/ is not on wordpress.com
I can tell cause your CSS: http://woomamm.com/wp-content/themes/kingsize/style.css
ThemeForest themes ain't on .com :)
You can't delete it that way. WordPress.com is your registrar though, that's a different thing, and you're redirecting.
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