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  tefst · Member · Jun 18, 2017 at 10:45 pm

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  I would like to completely delete my WordPress Account and remove my username and email from the site. I cannot find a way to do this – can anybody please help?

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  guicmazeredo · Staff · Jun 18, 2017 at 11:16 pm

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  Hi there.

  You should do the 3 steps below to completely remove your website upgrades (ex: emails, domains), website content and, finally, your account.

  1. Deleting site with upgrades
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/#deleting a-site-with-upgrades

  2. Deleting sites
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

  3. Deleting Account
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

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  tefst · Member · Jun 23, 2017 at 1:48 am

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  Hi,

  Thanks for your reply. I have seen those steps, but it doesn’t actually delete the account – and at this point it won’t actually let me change my username or email, so I still have personal information associated with the account, which is what I’m trying to remove. Are there any other alternatives?

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  guicmazeredo · Staff · Jun 30, 2017 at 2:12 am

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  Hi there,

  Sorry that I only saw your reply now. I added the tag “modlook” on this thread so the staff can see your account and website status and probably proceed to remove the remaining informations.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 30, 2017 at 3:04 am

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  Here’s how to deactivate your account:
  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 at https://wordpress.com/me/account 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.

  Free disposable email address https://www.google.ca/search?q=free+disposable+email+address&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=Jf0mWaWKPMOD0wLgg6bYBQ

  2. To unsubscribe from email sent to you from WordPress.com, go here and click on “Block all subscription emails from WordPress.com”:
  https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/

  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

  4. To hide your Gravatar profile, login and on the bottom right hand corner of your Gravatar profile page you will find a “hide” button visible only to you that you can click. http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-privacy

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting sites and/or site content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found):
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1