Deleting a comment

carriejswan · Member · Jan 20, 2021 at 6:36 pm
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All I want to do is delete a comment that I posted in 2014! I cannot find any useful help for how to do this anywhere and there apparently is no way to contact WordPress directly.
It says: ‘You’ll find all the actions you can take on a comment at the top of the expanded comment. Use these buttons to like/unlike, approve/unapprove, edit, mark as spam, move to trash, or permanently delete comments.’ But how do you get to the ‘expanded comment’?
staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Jan 21, 2021 at 4:13 am
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Hi,

Is this a comment you left on another person’s website? Or one on a website you built yourself?
carriejswan · Member · Jan 22, 2021 at 4:06 pm
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Hi, it was on someone else’s site.

Carrie
supernovia · Staff · Jan 22, 2021 at 5:03 pm
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Hi Carrie, your best bet for removing a comment you left on someone else’s site is to reach out to the site owner and ask them to remove it for you. Only a site owner has control over the comments left on their site.
carriejswan · Member · Jan 22, 2021 at 5:41 pm
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OK, I’ll try that, thanks. But it seems odd that I can’t delete it myself – very worrying!
supernovia · Staff · Jan 22, 2021 at 7:01 pm
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Leaving a comment on someone’s site is a bit like mailing them a letter that they can choose to display or not. They’re in control once it’s on their site. I hope that helps!
carriejswan · Member · Jan 22, 2021 at 7:17 pm
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OK, thanks.

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