closing an old account
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Hi,
I opened a wordpress account back in 2013 called sarahsgreatreads. I am in my account now. how do I permanently close my account?
Sarah FredericksThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello,
Please keep in mind that once you choose to deactivate your account, you’ll NEVER be able to re-use its WordPress.com address again. There are several options you can choose from rather than choosing to delete the site permanently. This is something that you yourself will need to do.
* Change your site’s address and keep your content
https://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/* Delete old posts and continue using the same address
https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#deleting-posts* Empty your site of all its content for a fresh start and continue using the same address
https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/* Transfer your site to someone else
https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account* Make your site private so only people you invite can see it
https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/If you do NOT wish to choose one of the options above and are certain that you wish to delete your site permanently, you can follow this link https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
Again, please make certain you will never want to reuse the address, as it will no longer be available for you or anyone else to use after deleted/deactivated.
Hope that helps.
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Apparently, you cannot actually close an account per the staff response I received from my own thread: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-account-1066?replies=2#post-2693834
The instructions I was referring to in my post can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
It essentially boils down to delete everything you can and then change the password to a long random string so that (probably) no will be able to log into the account again. Kind of ridiculous.
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