Delete Account Entirely

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  anotherbreedofkat · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 6:01 pm

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  I would like to delete my account entirely as I have a new one and need to use the email address from this one. I have deleted everything I can, but I cannot find where to delete the account in total. Please advise.

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  willowfyre · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 6:05 pm

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  Hi anotherbreedofkat!

  WordPress.com does not allow for the deletion of accounts, nor will they delete/deactivate your account for you. This policy helps protect you so that another party is unable to obtain ownership of your account name. Your site, data, and information are managed by you and the users you have given approval to. As such, you (as the owner) are the only one who can delete/deactivate.

  Below are instructions on how you can delete your sites and data then deactivate your account. Once complete, there will be no record of your site or personal information found in searches.

  You can easily do this by emptying and deleting your site. Once this is done remove all personal information from your Account Settings and change your password to a random string. This will leave your account inactive and prevent you, or anyone else, from gaining access to it in the future.

  Please let me know if you have any further questions.

  Thank you!
  Tonya

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 6:09 pm

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  Hi there,

  Here’s how to deactivate your WordPress.COM 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

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  willowfyre · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 6:12 pm

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  Thank you @timethief for providing the links – I didn’t realize they didn’t post in my response.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 6:13 pm

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  No problem. Best wishes. :)