You can login to your host, and remove the site from there, or ask them to help you :
https://access.name-services.com/
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#NS/jbinspection.com
Or you could contact your registrar and update the DNS to be a parked domain :
https://www.enom.com/
You could also ftp over to your site, and dump in a file called index.html that says “your site is offline”.
At worst, you could install a Maintenance Plugin that says your site is offline :
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/
Hi @jazzbrass
The steps I can think of that don’t involve any cPanel / FTP access would be
1. Login to /wp-admin
2. Go to Pages and delete all of them
3. Go to Posts and delete all of them
4. Additionally, install Simple Website Redirect (or other redirect plugin) and redirect the whole site to whatever site you want ( wordpress.org would be nice 😁)
The above steps are not the optimal way to delete a WP site. The optimal way requires access to cPanel where you should delete files and database.
Kind regards,
Vlad
There’s also a plugin named WP Reset to start from scratch :
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-reset/
Then redirect.
Thanks for responding. I think I got a redirect plugin working to my new site.
I called enom and they said they are not hosting the old site (no idea who is.) I’m not sure about any of the other steps because I don’t know what a DNS or an FTP is, but I’ll look into it. (I promise I’m more useful in other aspects of life.)
Thanks again
Your site is hosted at “Ting Fiber”. Does that ring a bell?
$ nslookup jbinspection.com
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: jbinspection.com
Address: 98.124.251.71
[sdstern@sds-desk ~]$ whois 98.124.251.71
[Querying whois.arin.net]
[whois.arin.net]
#
# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
#
# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
#
# Copyright 1997-2020, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.
#
NetRange: 98.124.192.0 - 98.124.255.255
CIDR: 98.124.192.0/18
NetName: ENOM-BLOCK-2
NetHandle: NET-98-124-192-0-1
Parent: NET98 (NET-98-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS21740
Organization: Ting Fiber Inc. (TF-178)
RegDate: 2008-06-17
Updated: 2020-09-10
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/98.124.192.0
OrgName: Ting Fiber Inc.
OrgId: TF-178
Address: 800D Louisville Street
City: Starkville
StateProv: MS
PostalCode: 39759
Country: US
@sterndata, doesn’t ring a bell. The only hosts I’ve ever worked with was hostgator, enom, (which could’ve sworn hosted this site,) and whatever squarespace uses.
Interesting. Thanks for looking that up I’ll give them a call
jbinspection.com at 98.124.251.71 does a 301 redirect to https://www.borgeshomeinspections.com/, which is at squarespace. So, this does not seem to be a wordpress issue.
@sterndata, yes a few minutes ago I installed a plugin, suggested on this forum, to rediret my wordpress site for my old business jbinspection.com to my new squarespace site borgeshomeinspections.com
I’ll have to get around to actually deleting the old site but this is a good start. Thanks for getting me on the right track for that.
