Not all Blogs you own need to be out there sucking money out from your pocket for the hosting services they are listed on.
What if you are done with your blogging journey and want to quit and want that your blog should no longer be listed on the internet.
That is a sad thing because you know Blogging is a long journey and you won’t get results immediately.
But as you have decided to quit blogging then it’s my duty to show you how to delete a WordPress site only in 2 steps.
The methods that I am going to teach you today are super easy to follow and are 100% working even if you are a beginner or not that techy.
It is important to remember that services like Google and Wayback Machine will store caches of your website for a long time.
So without any further due let’s get started.
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Backup Your WordPress.org site
Before deleting your WordPress blog from the internet there are some things you should make sure of before actually deleting your blog from the internet.
The first thing is that you have to make sure that you have created a backup of your blog so that in the near future anytime you need the blog your previous blog design and its articles are just a click away.
To create and download a backup file of your blog follow the given steps
Authors Note:- We Will Be Using Updraft and The Following Steps are for Updraft Only.
Step 1 Go to Plugins and click on Add New
Step 2 Now click on the search box and type UpdRAFT and hit search
Step 3 Click on Install and then click on activate to successfully install UpDraft on your WordPress website.
Step 4 Now go over to the Installed Plugins section and click on Settings under the Updraft plugin.
Step 5 Now after you click on setting click on Backup Now
Step 6 Make sure all of your boxes are checked and then click backup
Then click backup
Now you will get a success message like this.
How to delete Your WordPress.org Site
If you are a WordPress.org user then these steps are for you on how to delete a WordPress Blog in WordPress.org.
Step 1:- Login to Your Hosting Cpanel
Step 2:- Click on File Manager Option
When you will click on this file manager option then you will find a lot of websites there (If you have several websites)
Step 3:- Now you have to search for public_html
Step 5:- After finding the Public_html file double click on it
Under the public_html Directory, You will see a lot of WordPress fields and folders.
You have to select All files and files folders by a short command (Ctrl+A)
and then Right click and delete.
As soon as you click on the Delete button, Your website will be completely deleted.
If you have several websites hosted on the same platform then you don’t need to delete the main folder.
How to delete your WordPress.com site.
To delete your WordPress blog follow the given steps
Step 2:- Click on The Top Right Corner’s Profile Icon
Step 3:- Click on manage and then settings.
Step 4:- Scroll Down Until You See the delete your site permanently option.
Click On It.
And Then Something like this will come up.
Click on delete site again.
Now type in the name of your WordPress site and click on delete to successfully delete your WordPress.com site.
Wrapping Up
That’s It.
You have successfully deleted your WordPress Site.
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