---
title: "Delete and restore your website"
url: "https://mycommunitysync.com/delete-and-restore-website"
community: "CommunitySync"
description: "Start over safely — deleting a site always makes a restorable backup first."
updated: "2026-07-18T18:45:00.616+00:00"
---

# Delete and restore your website

*Website Publishing*

Sometimes the cleanest path forward is to scrap your current website and build fresh. CommunitySync makes that safe: every deletion snapshots your entire site to a backup first, so nothing is truly lost and you can always bring it back. This is an owner/admin action, done from the Website **Overview** page in the orange platform panel.

## Delete your website

Deleting removes your live site so you can start over with a clean slate. Before it deletes anything, the system saves a full snapshot — all pages, both draft and published — to a backup you can restore later.

1. Open the Website **Overview** page in the orange platform panel.
2. Scroll to the **Danger zone** at the bottom.
3. Click **Delete website**.
4. In the confirmation modal, enter your account password.
5. Confirm. The system snapshots the whole site to a backup, then deletes the live site.

Your content isn't gone. Every deletion leaves a restorable backup, so you can rebuild from scratch knowing the old version is still recoverable.

![The Danger zone on the Website Overview page](https://iaktsmonietvbikzietg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/site-assets/kb/b2-ov-danger2.png "The Danger zone holds Delete website — which snapshots a backup before it removes anything.")

## Restore a website from a backup

Restoring recreates a site from a saved snapshot. A restored site always comes back in **draft** — it never goes live automatically — so you can review it before the public sees it.

1. On the Website **Overview** page, find the **Backups** panel.
2. Choose the snapshot you want to bring back.
3. Restore it. The site is recreated in draft.
4. Review the restored site, then publish it when you're ready. See [Take your website live](/take-your-website-live) for the go-live steps.

## Good to know

- **Only a super-admin can restore.** If you're an owner or admin who deleted a site, ask a
  super-admin to run the restore for you.
- **One site per community.** A restore is blocked while your community already has a live site.
  If you need to bring back an old snapshot, delete the current site first (that deletion makes its
  own backup), then restore.

## Troubleshooting

### The Delete website button asks for a password
That's expected. Deleting is a protective step, so the confirmation modal asks for your account password before it snapshots and removes the site. Enter the password you sign in with.

### I deleted my site and now I can't restore it
Restoring is a super-admin action. Owners and admins can delete (which always makes a backup), but only a super-admin can recreate a site from a snapshot. Reach out to a super-admin to bring your backup back.

### Restore is blocked or greyed out
Each community can have only one website at a time. If a live site already exists, restore won't proceed. Delete the current site first — that deletion saves its own backup — and then restore the snapshot you want.

### My restored site isn't showing to the public
A restored site always comes back in draft, on purpose, so you can review it first. It won't be public until you publish it. See [Take your website live](/take-your-website-live).

### Website Publishing

- [Get your website into Google — Search Console and your sitemap](https://mycommunitysync.com/get-into-google-search-console.md)
- [See what Google sees — your page's structured data](https://mycommunitysync.com/see-what-google-sees.md)
- [Connect your social profiles to your website — for search engines](https://mycommunitysync.com/social-profiles-search-engines-connect.md)
- [Why your site isn't in Google yet — and what actually moves it](https://mycommunitysync.com/why-your-site-is-not-in-google-yet.md)
- [Optimize a page for search (SEO title, description, social image)](https://mycommunitysync.com/website-seo-basics.md)
- [Set up redirects for moved or renamed pages](https://mycommunitysync.com/set-up-website-redirects.md)
- [Set your website's favicon (browser-tab icon)](https://mycommunitysync.com/set-a-favicon.md)
- [Take your website live (and how fast changes appear)](https://mycommunitysync.com/take-your-website-live.md)
- [Connect a custom domain to your website](https://mycommunitysync.com/connect-a-custom-domain.md)
- [What is schema markup — and what your site adds automatically](https://mycommunitysync.com/what-is-schema-markup.md)
- [Where FAQ schema works today — and where it doesn't](https://mycommunitysync.com/faq-schema-where-it-works.md)