Deleting Site and Starting Over

doylejohn321 · Member · Jul 9, 2022 at 1:29 pm
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I need to delete this site because it was not set up by me and is not working.

WP.com: Yes
Correct account: Yes

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
amiteshg93 · Member · Jul 9, 2022 at 2:55 pm
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Hi there,

If you wish to delete a free hosted WordPress.com account, you must be logged in under the same username. Deleting a site permanently removes it and you’ll never be able to re-use it.

you can learn more about deleting a site below:
https://wordpress.com/support/delete-site/

Hope this helps! :)
doylejohn321 · Member · Jul 9, 2022 at 4:37 pm
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I would rather bring it back up correctly, but it has problems.
themagicrobot · Member · Jul 9, 2022 at 4:42 pm
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https://biggkitty.wordpress.com/ hasn’t been launched yet so volunteers can’t see it to offer any advice. How much content have you created and can you explain in more detail these “problems” you are facing.
doylejohn321 · Member · Jul 9, 2022 at 7:23 pm
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I did not originally setup this site a company did. None of the side bars show up and I may have deleted some things. The company only wanted to do a page when their guarantee was ten. They may have blocked me from doing certain things.
justjennifer · Member · Jul 10, 2022 at 10:17 am
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Hi there, sorry to hear about your troubles, but if that company registered your WordPress.com site for you, instead of you registering the site yourself, you won’t be able to delete it because you are not the site owner. You’ll need them to transfer site ownership to your account so you can carry on with it. https://wordpress.com/support/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/

If they are not willing to do that, then you could register a new WordPress.com website under your own account and start over, but of course you won’t be able to use that same site address as it is already in use.

Just note that WordPress.com itself will not get involved in site ownership disputes. Regardless, I’m going to flag forum Staff on this thread as they can confirm your user role status. Thanks for your patience while they get back to you.
metabreakr · Staff · Jul 10, 2022 at 4:00 pm
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Hi @doylejohn321,

While you are indeed the site owner for biggkitty.wordpress.com, could you please confirm that this is the site that you are referring to?

I see that you previously had an eCommerce plan for biggkitty.com, however that site is now hosted with Bluehost.

If you are indeed referring to the site above, I’m afraid that we can’t help directly because your site is not hosted with WordPress.com. In turn, we’re unable to take a closer look at your site.

It looks like your host uses the open-source WordPress.org software, which differs from the managed hosting offered on WordPress.com. The good news though is that help is available in the WordPress.org forums: https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/

Otherwise, you may want to contact Bluehost for further support.

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