Account information deletion

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  teastare · Member · Apr 13, 2013 at 12:27 pm

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  I understand you cannot completely delete the account but I want to delete all information stored within my wordpress account!

  The email registered with my account is an old email adress on which I don’t have access anymore, but still using my personal name information and I want it deleted from wordpress.com!

  Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2013 at 3:07 pm

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  You were asked for an email address only to create a username account. You provided any other information voluntarily and you can remove it and replace the email address at any time.

  Provided you are logged in under the Admin username account you can delete any blog registered under that username by using these instructions. http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
  Deleted blog URLs are not recycled http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  Although username accounts are not deleted, so you cannot be impersonated and have your reputation affected by anyone registering the same username in the future, there are steps you can take that amount to removing all personal information and result in leaving only a throwaway email address behind. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  1. You can go to My Account->Edit Profile and remove all data except the account name and an email address. Create a throwaway email address and change the account email to that throwaway address. This only leaves the username behind.

  2. To unsubscribe from email sent to you from WordPress.com, go here and click on “Block all subscription emails from WordPress.com”:
  http://wordpress.com/#!/following/subsettings/

  3. To ensure the account is locked up tightly, visit this site, generate a password of 15-20 characters, and change the account password to it:
  http://www.thebitmill.com/tools/password.html

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting a blog or blog content does not remove any indexed content from appearing in the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.