Deleting Account
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Why in the world do you lock out the account email from ever being able to used in opening a new account? Why after deleting can I still log in to the backend and see content? Why is the account not just wiped clean as if it never was???
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Doing this helps to avoid impersonation and other potential security issues. While you aren’t exactly able to delete your account itself, you can clear out your site and remove your personal information from it. This will prevent any access to the account, and basically render it fully inactive and inaccessible. You’ll find more information on this (as well as how to reuse an email account you’ve already used) here. Hope that helps you out!
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Why in the world do you lock out the account email from ever being able to used in opening a new account?
Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account. You can create one gravatar for every username account that applies to all blogs registered under the same username account and email address.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-address/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-notifications/There is a single email address that can be used on only one wordpress.COM username account and not on any others, regardless of how many blogs are registered under that username account.
The wordpress.COM blog’s owner can change the relevant email address on their accounts page at https://wordpress.com/me/account at any time.
For Issues Changing your Email Address see https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-address/#issues-changing-your-email-address
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.
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.html4. 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 blogs and/or blog 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=1Why after deleting can I still log in to the backend and see content?
Why after deleting can I still log in to the backend and see content?
Have you cleared your browser cache?
https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cacheWhere do you see content?
aficj.org is hosted by SiteGround, not by wordpress.COM.
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I see content here – https://wordpress.com/stats/day/www.aficj.org::aficj1, and go to reader.
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I see content here – https://wordpress.com/stats/day/www.aficj.org::aficj1, and go to reader.
Which takes me to another old site??? I just want a clean slate to start over.
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Hi there,
http://www.aficj.org is not a WordPress.com site. That is a self-hosted WordPress.org site connected to your WordPress.com account via the Jetpack plugin.
There is also a WordPress.com site in your account, https://hannahmariearnett.wordpress.com/
If you want to create a new WordPress.com site in this account, you can do it from this link:
https://wordpress.com/start/site/
If you want to create an entirely new account, log out of this account and clear your browser cache and cookies, then go to the link above. You will need to use a different email address than the one associated with your aficj account, as we don’t allow different accounts to share the same email address:
Once created an account cannot be deleted. Any sites in the account can be deleted via My Site ->Settings, but the username account itself cannot:
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Thank you, I did not realize my daughter had her site under my account. I think I understand how to redo a site. Thanks again.
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