Delete account

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  sagegrazer · Member · Nov 2, 2016 at 11:21 pm

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  Hello, I am having trouble deleting my account. I tried to follow the instructions but could not find the option to delete account. Can you please help?
  Thank you

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  mariahpierson · Member · Nov 2, 2016 at 11:37 pm

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  Hi there,

  The user account itself cannot be deleted. It is set up that way to prevent someone else from gaining access to your site and pretending to be you.

  If you want to get rid of your account details, follow this link and remove all personal information from your account.

  https://wordpress.com/me/account

  Change your email address to a throwaway address and change the password to something random that you won’t remember to prevent you from gaining access to it in the future. Or, you can just block all emails and keep the account dormant in case you may want to use it again in the future.

  To hide your Gravatar profile:

  http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-privacy

  Hope that helps.

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  sagegrazer · Member · Nov 2, 2016 at 11:43 pm

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  Thank you for your response! Is there a way to delete a blog or all of its contents? I’ve been trying and going through settings but nothing is happening.
  thank you

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  mariahpierson · Member · Nov 3, 2016 at 12:00 am

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  You’re most welcome.

  This support document will help explain how to delete your site, if you choose. There are other options listed as well.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  If you think that you may want to use the same address/url in the near future, then I would not recommend deleting. Once you delete, the address/url becomes unavailable for you or anyone else to use for quite some time, if at all.