Many new bloggers have asked the following question in different forums i.e., is their any way to delete Wordpress blog or website permanently from the internet? Simply deleting the WordPress installation from the server does not remove the website completely from the internet.
Let’s see the step by step procedure to delete a WordPress blog permanently from the internet.
Why We Need To Permanently Delete a WordPress Blog or website?
As I said before, simply deleting the WordPress file in your server is not enough to remove website permanently from the internet.
Even if you delete your WordPress installation from your service, you can find your website pages, cached snapshots appear in the search results for certain keywords.
Note: The following procedure is for self-hosted WordPress websites (wordpress.org).
Delete a blog on WordPress permanently:
Step 1: Backup Your WordPress Blog
First step is to take backup of your blog. Even though you decide to delete your blog permanently, you should take a backup of your blog. This may help you in future.
Step 2: Delete Your WordPress Files
Login to Cpanel with appropriate Username and password. Click File Manager→ public_html. The files and folders which you have to find in the public_html area are the codings for your website.
Deleting files in the public_html will erase WordPress installation, theme, images, media files and also plugins.
Note: If you didn’t have Cpanel details, you can also delete WordPress blog through FTP client.
Step 3: Block Search Engines Using Robots.txt
Most of the bloggers and web developers are familiar with this word Robots.txt
. This file is used by the webmasters to instruct the search engine robots.
Next step is to block search engine robots from crawling, indexing your website in their database.
Create a robots.txt file in the server using CPanel or FTP client and edit that file with the code given below.
Disallow: /
These two lines disallow the search engine robots from accessing all the pages under root domain name.
Related Article: How To Bulk Delete Categories In Your WordPress Blog
Step 4: Removing Content From Search Engines Database
After removing all the content in your website, a search engine may keep on showing your website for some search queries. Search engine will think that the website was down due to some technical issue and it will recover soon.
Webmasters need to tell the search engine that the content was permanently removed. We can do it using the .htaccess file.
Create a new text file in the website root directory and name it as .htaccess. Now, edit that file and add the code given below.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/robots.txt
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [L,G]
Note: Don’t forget to change www.example.com into your root domain name.
This code redirects all the request to your website and display 410 error and also it allow the web spider to access a robots.txt file.
That’s it. Now your WordPress blog or website was permanently removed from the internet.
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