If yous need assistance amongst deleting a blog, build certain plenty yous understand the words that are used to depict things inwards Blogger (ref Blogger, Blogs together with bloggers, Posts Pages together with Screens: or so basic definitions) - many people enjoin "blog" when they genuinely yell upwards "post", together with are thence surprised when they follow or so simple instructions together with all their "blogs" (sic) disappear.Also, build certain plenty that yous understand that your Blogger problem organisation human human relationship is solely a Google account (except for Blogger accounts created pre 2006). If yous wishing to "delete" a Google problem organisation human human relationship (not solely a specific blog), yell upwards value well-nigh whether yous genuinely need to delete it every chip opposed to solely never logging inwards to it again.
Deleting a blog:
If yous ain the spider spider web log together with know the password of the Google account
- Log inwards to Blogger, using the owning account
- In pre-Sept-11 Blogger: Choose Settings > Basic > Delete Blog.
- In post-Sept-11 Blogger (aka the new interface):
Choose Settings from the drop-down chief menu, thence
Choose Other from the left-hand bar
In the Blog-tools row, click Delete Blog.
If yous wishing to move along the URL, thence solely delete all the posts (see the side yesteryear side sections). If yous wishing to give the URL to someone else, delete the posts together with thence transfer the ownership.
If the spider spider web log has an pictures stored inwards Picasa-web-albums, thence they testament non alive on deleted. If yous wishing to delete them, yous need either handgrip them from Picasa-web-albums directly, or delete all the posts individually (not using the bulk-selection method) before yous delete the blog.
If yous don't know the password
The showtime step, if yous don't know the password is to role the the Forgotten Password screen, which asks for the blog's URL or the electronic postal service address that yous used to set the Google account.
If that doesn't work, Google have got got some to a greater extent than suggestions for you.
The rattling final option, if naught else works, is to convey Google's Account Recovery Exam. This attempts to re-connect yous amongst the problem organisation human human relationship using the electronic postal service problem organisation human human relationship that yous had listed amongst it and/or whatever other security data that yous (or Google) provided inwards the past.
You testament need to convince Google that yous genuinely did build the blog: this could alive on difficult if yous don't have got got access to the electronic postal service address that yous originally associated amongst the Blogger account, exactly it may non alive on impossible if yous tin reply some other security questions correctly. There may alive on cases where this seems harsh or unfair, exactly it's necessary thence that Google doesn't start deleting blogs based on malicious requests from people who don't ain them at all.
If your spider spider web log was created before 2006, yous may non have got got converted your original re-create Blogger problem organisation human human relationship into a Google account. In this case, role the Legacy claim form.
If the spider spider web log belongs to someone else
You cannot to a greater extent than frequently than non acquire blogs that don't belong to yous deleted, unless the private who published it is willing to delete it themselves - the showtime measurement is to testify asking them.
There are or so exceptions, including:
- Taking activity against a blogger who has used copyright cloth without permission, and
- Dealing amongst someone who is impersonating yous or breaking Blogger's cost together with weather condition status inwards some other means - inwards which illustration yous need to role this workflow.
If the spider spider web log belongs to someone who has died
In this case, Google have got got a special procedure which lets the private who is legally responsible for the blog-owner's affairs acquire access to their Gmail account: inwards i trial they have got got access to the Gmail account, they testament also have got got access to the spider spider web log via www.blogger.com, thence they tin delete it every chip described above.
Note that this physical aid for requires the legal representative to:
- Have an electronic postal service problem organisation human human relationship themselves, and
- Have received a electronic postal service message from the deceased person, and
- Send inwards a re-create of the full message header from this electronic postal service message.
Deleting blog-post(s), without deleting the blog:
To delete i spider spider web log post:
- Log into the dashboard
- In the listing of Posts for the blog, hover the mouse over the title for the post: this lets yous come upwards across links solely underneath it for Edit, View together with Delete: click the Delete link..
- You testament alive on shown a summary of the post together with asked to confirm the delete.
To delete many (or all) spider spider web log posts, exactly non the Blog/URL:
- Log into the dashboard
- In the pre-Sept-11 blogger inteface:Choose Posts > Edit posts,
Use the tick-box at the left of the post titles to select all the posts yous wishing to delete
Scroll to the bottom of the covert together with click Delete - In the Sept-11 Blogger interface:In the listing of Posts for the blog, role the tick-box at the left of the post titles to choose the posts yous wishing to delete. (There are links inwards the tiptop row for selecting All, Published, etc)
Click the trash-can icon at the rattling tiptop of the list, solely beside Revert to Draft..
The number of posts per covert is limited yesteryear a drop-down arrow at the tiptop right, together with defaults to (I think) 50: if your spider spider web log has to a greater extent than posts than yous are displaying (some of mine have got got several hundred posts), thence yous may need to practice this several times.
Removing a spider spider web log from your Profile:
If yous have got got a spider spider web log that yous don't wishing to delete, exactly which yous practice wishing to delete from your Blogger profile, then:
- Log on to Blogger
- In pre-Sept-2011 Blogger: From the Dashboard guide Edit Profile > Select blogs
In post-Sept-2011 Blogger, from the driblet downwardly nib of fare beside your electronic postal service address inwards the tiptop right mitt corner of the dashboard, guide Blogger Profile - Un-tick the blogs that yous don't wishing to show
- Press Save Settings at the bottom of the page)
Deleting a Google account:
To delete your Google Account, follow the instructions on this page.
Make certain plenty that yous are certain plenty yous need to delete the Google account: inwards many cases, it may alive on safer to acquire out it inwards place, flush though yous never role it again.
The page doesn't enjoin what testament come upwards virtually to your whatever Blogger blog(s) that yous Google problem organisation human human relationship owns. However at the infinitesimal it looks like the blog(s) are non deleted. If yous wishing to delete the blogs, yous must practice this separately (see above), before yous delete the account.
If the blogs comprise pictures from Picasa-web-albums, these pictures may alive on deleted.
And if the blogs comprise items from other Google-hosted products (eg Docs, custom-maps), thence it's belike that these items testament also alive on deleted.
Related Articles:
Blogger, Blogs together with bloggers, Posts Pages together with Screens: or so basic definitions
Understanding your Google account
Taking activity against a blogger who has used copyright cloth without permission
Components inwards your blog: how the data is organised
Linking Blogs together with Websites
Storing Pictures: Picasa together with your blog