Delete Account

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  toootooot · Member · Oct 3, 2017 at 11:28 am

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  I want to delete my account- not my site- my entire account. I dont want it to merely be inactive and not have access to it- I want to delete it. Thanks.

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  staff-imahappyengineer · Staff · Oct 3, 2017 at 12:13 pm

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  Hello @toootooot,

  WordPress.com accounts cannot be deleted. However, you can easily delete your blog. If you wish to leave WordPress.com, you can just leave your account inactive. To unsubscribe from any email notifications from WordPress.com, go to your subscription settings and check the box that says Block all subscription emails from WordPress.com. Also: change/rename your username, and reuse email addresses.

  You can find more information from this link.

  Regards,
  Rose

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  mblog1342 · Member · Oct 12, 2017 at 9:43 pm

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  I think WordPress should allow people to completely delete accounts. It makes some people (like me) uneasy, probably, to think that their account is somewhere out there. Even if it’s inactive.

  If WordPress, ever does that, I would be really happy…

  Have a nice day,
  Mo

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  timethief · Member · Oct 12, 2017 at 9:57 pm

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  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