The content or the information that we publish online lasts forever and can be searched back again by a good search engine. It does apply to all the digital footprints related to you and your business. The search engines often cache the websites which you delete, for the very long period. Now if you don’t wish to leave these footprints, you can delete them either be a WordPress Blog or a website. However, there are some noteworthy tips to consider before deleting a WordPress Blog.
- Deleting your WordPress Website or Blog could still be remained cached by some of the Search Engines for some period of the time. However, this can be done by stopping your website/blog to crawl on the search engines.
- Before deleting your blog or a website, you should maintain a backup of all your files and content. This is just as a precautionary measure if you might need to refer old content sometime in future.
How to delete a WordPress Blog?
It is a straightforward task to delete a WordPress Blog or a website with the steps mentioned below.
- Deleting WordPress Files- (Software, Plugins, themes, images, and videos)
- Login to your hosting Control Panel, like for Linux hosting you will have a cPanel, or for a special hosting, you will have a custom interface to manage your website.
- Locate the tab for ‘files’ or ‘Files Manager.’
- Now navigate to the Root directory of your website.
- Select the files or the folder you wish to delete.
- Select the delete option.
- Delete the WordPress Database:
- Navigate to the MySQL Database in your control panel.
- Locate the ‘current database.’
- Cross check the database which you want to delete.
- Select the ‘delete’ option.
- Delete Domain Name from your Blog
- Login to the Control Panel and locate to the list of all the domains listed.
- Right next to the name the domain you can see a cross mark (X), select that option to delete the domain name of the blog.
- Confirm and then delete the domain.
Having learned these above steps for deleting the files/folder, domain, and database in your WordPress blog or website you can have the control of your website or blog. By managing these crucial tasks related to your blog or website you can manage most of the work without incurring much of the IT overheads.
