Deleting accounts

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  gemmaem · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 9:46 am

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  Just yet another person saying how desperately I wish I could delete my account. I made it (alas the day!) in the hope that it would make it easier to read WordPress blogs on my kindle (no idea why I thought that would work, wishful thinking I guess). It still remembers the email address I first gave it, insisting whenever I want to comment as a guest on somebody’s blog that the address is already linked to a WordPress account, even though I changed the address associated with the account in the hope of breaking the link. I do not want to keep typing in my password, and I hate the way my account formats my name as a commenter. Every time I see WordPress comments and want to contribute, I curse the day I ever signed up.

  I really wish you would change this. It is the height of obnoxiousness.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2014 at 3:51 pm

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  Here’s how to deactivate your account:
  All you were required to provide to register an account here was an email address that can be replaced at any time.

  Any personal information that you voluntarily posted can also be removed at any time.

  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 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.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.