WordLinx Blog

It’s been about a week since our blog was removed from WordPress.com and we still haven’t had a reply to our messages. We’re very disappointed with what we thought was a professional service and urge anyone considering using their site to think twice.

We have read through their ‘Terms of Service’ several times and can not see how we could have violated them in any way. If you don’t take our word for it, you can see cached versions of our pages thanks to Google. Just go to Google and type in ’site: wordlinx.wordpress.com’ then click the ‘Cached’ links in the results to take a look for yourselves. Apart from the new features we have added here, and our users’ comments (which were sadly lost when we moved) our old blog is virtually identical to this one.

What to do if this happens to you. Firstly, don’t worry about your content. It will be safely stored in Google’s cache for a couple of weeks. So if you’re unable to login to WordPress.com, you can still access all your content by searching Google for ’site: ***.wordpress.com’ where *** is the name of your blog. If you are still able to login to WordPress.com you may be able to use their Export feature to rescue your content. However, we found this page that suggests otherwise.

We’re sad to have to post a message like this, but glad if it serves as a warning to others. When your content is on a site that you don’t own, it is at the mercy of its administrators and can be removed at any time.

As you can see, luckily we managed to rescue most of our content and use the WordPress interface from WordPress.org here. Unfortunately not everyone can host their own blog like us. We seriously recommend browsing the web for similar services before signing up to WordPress.com, otherwise you may suffer the same fate. Use at your own risk.