Transferring your site from Wordpress? Here is how to delete it.

If you have a Wordpress site that you’re no longer using, you need to delete that site.

How do you delete a Wordpress site?

The exact steps depend on your host.

Some guides I’ve liked:

Bluehost: How to delete a WordPress website (guide from WPMarmite)

DreamHost: Delete a DreamHost WordPress install (guide from DreamHost)

Why?

If the files are still there, but you’re no longer updating plugins and taking other steps to keep those files secure, they can be hacked.

Basically, your plugins don’t get updated and then they’re vulnerbale to hacking.

You don’t technically need to wait, but I would give it a few months after you transfer your site from WordPress before deleting it.

I like to take screenshots of the site before I delete it, so that the client still has a record of it they can easily access.