Becuase I’m active in the support forums, people find me and ask all sorts of questions. Like Charlie.
I want to totally delete my word press account. I will PAY you to do this. Why? Because I worked for 15 minutes on the original word press website but found it too difficult for me and chose to go with a super easy Wix.com website, which is now published and works well. In searches I come up under wordpress only and my deleted wordpress website is still there. I want people to be able to find my wix site. I hope there is a way to TOTALLY delete my word press account. I will PAY you to do it.
Sorry, Charlie, no can do. I checked his email and his domain that he put in his email and it was on WordPress.com so I sent him the link on .com for How to delete your site.
I will note, I am sorry he wants to use Wix.com, but on some levels it is far simpler than WordPress (yes, I said it). It’s drag, drop, and done, and looks great on desktops. Mobile? That’s another story. But I had a paint-by-numbers GeoCities account back in the day, so I really don’t have room to talk about ugly first websites.
The story doesn’t end here. Charlie asked me to do it for him.
Even if he was a customer at my company, I would tell him no. I would send him directions on how to do it but I would not delete it for him. I don’t delete customer’s sites or data (unless the data is a Terms violation). Hell, even with hacked content, I back it up elsewhere first. Deleting someone’s data is an absolute, 100%, last resort. You should never ever do it. There’s no going back.
Then Charlie asked me again.
I suspect his issue was that he was really frustrated and wanted everything to die in a fire. Which I totally understand, but amidst all your anger, you need to take a deep breath and follow the directions. And, when someone tells you “I don’t work for that company, but I found out how to do it. Here you go!” perhaps you can say “Thank you.”
Just a thought.
