This might be a little different than your average inquiry, but I’m not sure where else to turn.
I work at a funeral home, and a family we are working with is extremely upset with an obituary that was copied from our website, entirely re-done with incorrect information, and published on a website powered by WordPress. For example, the decedent’s age, date of birth, and husband’s name are wrong – but the service info & additional family information is correct. To reiterate, the family is extremely upset.
My coworkers and I have looked up, down, and around this website for contact info, but there’s nothing. When that didn’t prove to be useful, we attempted to find something for WordPress, but we can’t find so much as an email address.
What can be done here? TIA.
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Is it a [Wordpress.com]) account, or a domain name that runs WordPress?
Feel free to DM me if you need help.
There is nothing that can be done about it.
WordPress is free software. Anybody can use it for anything they want. So, you trying to find contact information for WordPress is kind of like somebody wrote something using Microsoft Word and trying to contact Microsoft about it.
Instead, look up the domain name. Figure out who’s hosting the website, then contact them.
Note that if it’s a [wordpress.com]) site specifically, then you can contact them here: [https://wordpress.com/support/report-blogs/]) . However, most WordPress sites are not [wordpress.com]).
Like others have offered the powered by WordPress is just an advert for the software. Means nothing in this context. Checking the whois for the domain will likely result in not much more details if the registrar has opted out. There will be *something* to find who runs it. Send me the address and I’ll find when you need, with WordPress there is always a way.
Post a link to the site. With that info we might be able to tell you who owns the domain and where it might be hosted.
You can send the web host a DCMA notice to try and get the content taken down. WordPress has nothing to do with it however, it’s just a software used to make websites.
Most likely this a content farm site that just takes articles, respins them with some AI-like tool, and reposts. It doesn’t care about whether it’s legit, it just got traffic for nothing.
I think the time spent messing with this probably isn’t worth the aggravation. Annoying, but it only hurts them if they let it.