News!! Deleting Blogs Together With Blog-Posts

This article is well-nigh the issues involved inwards deleting a Blogger blog.

Before yous start:

If yous demand assistance alongside deleting a blog, brand sure enough yous empathize the words that are used to depict things inwards Blogger (ref Blogger, Blogs together with bloggers, Posts Pages together with Screens:  around basic definitions) - many people say "blog" when they actually hateful "post", together with are thus surprised when they follow around uncomplicated instructions together with all their "blogs" (sic) disappear.

Also, brand sure enough that yous empathize that your Blogger trouble organisation human relationship is only a Google account (except for Blogger accounts created pre 2006).   If yous desire to "delete" a Google trouble organisation human relationship (not only a specific blog), mean value well-nigh whether yous actually demand to delete it every bit opposed to only never logging inwards to it again.

Deleting a blog:

If yous ain the 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 novel interface):
  Choose Settings from the drop-down principal menu, thus
  Choose Other from the left-hand bar
  In the Blog-tools row, click Delete Blog.

Only create this if yous desire to delete the URL (ie spider web log address) together with non purpose it again.

If yous desire to proceed the URL, thus only delete all the posts (see the side yesteryear side sections).  If yous desire to give the URL to someone else, delete the posts together with thus transfer the ownership.

If the spider web log has an pictures stored inwards Picasa-web-albums, thus they volition non live on deleted.  If yous desire to delete them, yous demand either handle them from Picasa-web-albums directly, or delete all the posts individually (not using the bulk-selection method) earlier yous delete the blog.


If yous don't know the password 

The commencement step, if yous don't know the password is to purpose the the Forgotten Password screen, which asks for the blog's URL or the electronic mail address that yous used to position the Google account.

If that doesn't work, Google have got some to a greater extent than suggestions for you.

The rattling concluding option, if null else works, is to accept Google's Account Recovery Exam.  This attempts to re-connect yous alongside the trouble organisation human relationship using the electronic mail trouble organisation human relationship that yous had listed alongside it and/or whatever other safety information that yous (or Google) provided inwards the past.  

You volition demand to convince Google that yous actually did brand the blog:  this could live on hard if yous don't have got access to the electronic mail address that yous originally associated alongside the Blogger account, but it may non live on impossible if yous tin reply another safety questions correctly.   There may live on cases where this seems harsh or unfair, but it's necessary thus that Google doesn't start deleting blogs based on malicious requests from people who don't ain them at all.

If your spider web log was created earlier 2006, yous may non have got converted your master copy Blogger trouble organisation human relationship into a Google account.  In this case, purpose the Legacy claim form.

If the spider web log belongs to someone else 

You cannot to a greater extent than oft than non larn blogs that don't belong to yous deleted, unless the individual who published it is willing to delete it themselves - the commencement pace is to examine asking them.

There are around exceptions, including:

• Taking activeness against a blogger who has used copyright fabric without permission, and
• Dealing alongside someone who is impersonating yous or breaking Blogger's price together with weather condition inwards another agency - inwards which instance yous demand to purpose this workflow.

If the spider web log belongs to someone who has died 

In this case, Google have got a special procedure which lets the individual who is legally responsible for the blog-owner's affairs larn access to their Gmail account:  in i trial they have got access to the Gmail account, they volition also have got access to the spider web log via www.blogger.com, thus they tin delete it every bit described above.

Note that this physical care for requires the legal representative to:

• Have an electronic mail trouble organisation human relationship themselves, and 
• Have received a electronic mail message from the deceased person, and 
• Send inwards a re-create of the total message header from this electronic mail message.

So, thinking ahead, if yous desire someone to live on able to access your blog(s) afterward yous have got died, it's a skillful persuasion to brand sure enough that you've emailed them from the Google trouble organisation human relationship associated alongside the spider web log - or give them another agency to access your password(s).


Deleting blog-post(s), without deleting the blog:

To delete i 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 across links only underneath it for Edit, View together with Delete:  click the Delete link..   
• You volition live on shown a summary of the post together with asked to confirm the delete.

If the post contains whatever photos that are stored inwards Picasa-web-albums, yous volition live on asked if yous desire to delete them every bit well.   If yous create desire to delete them, tick the check-box.   It's non automatic because these photos may live on used inwards other blogs or posts every bit well.


To delete many (or all) spider web log posts, but 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 desire 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, purpose the tick-box at the left of the post titles to select the posts yous desire to delete.   (There are links inwards the peak row for selecting All, Published, etc)
  Click the trash-can icon at the rattling peak of the list, only beside Revert to Draft..   

The number of posts per covert is express yesteryear a drop-down arrow at the peak right, together with defaults to (I think) 50:  if your spider web log has to a greater extent than posts than yous are displaying (some of mine have got several hundred posts), thus yous may demand to create this several times.


Removing a spider web log from your Profile:

If yous have got a spider web log that yous don't desire to delete, but which yous create desire 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 bill of fare beside your electronic mail address inwards the peak right mitt corner of the dashboard, guide Blogger Profile
• Un-tick the blogs that yous don't desire to show
• Press Save Settings at the bottom of the page)

Deleting a Google account:

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Make sure enough that yous are sure enough yous demand to delete the Google account:  inwards many cases, it may live on safer to larn out it inwards place, fifty-fifty though yous never purpose it again.

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To delete your Google Account, follow the instructions on this page.

The page doesn't say what volition come about to your whatever Blogger blog(s) that yous Google trouble organisation human relationship owns.   However at the minute it looks similar the blog(s) are non deleted.  If yous desire to delete the blogs, yous must create this separately (see above), earlier yous delete the account.

If the blogs comprise pictures from Picasa-web-albums, these pictures may live on deleted.

And if the blogs comprise items from other Google-hosted products (eg Docs, custom-maps), thus it's probable that these items volition also live on deleted.

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Blogger, Blogs together with bloggers, Posts Pages together with Screens:  around basic definitions

Understanding your Google account

Taking activeness against a blogger who has used copyright fabric without permission

Components inwards your blog:  how the information is organised

Linking Blogs together with Websites

Storing Pictures: Picasa together with your blog

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