deleting an account

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  dlevyphoto · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 3:24 pm

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  I have a duplicate account and need to delete one how can i do that?

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  cothen · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 3:27 pm

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  Hi there!

  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”:
  <a href=”https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/
  https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/
  “>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 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=1

  I hope that this helps you!

  Best of Luck!

  ~Josh

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 6:54 pm

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  @cothen – Hi there, When directly quoting another forum volunteer’s reply, it is polite (and giving credit where it is due) to link back to the original answer, such as the information on deleting accounts that timethief provided here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/delete-account-1780?replies=2#post-2902093 Thanks for your consideration.

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  cothen · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 8:30 pm

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  @jsutjennifer

  No Problem! I will do that from now on!

  I am very sorry I did not give credit to @timethief.

  Please forgive my error in tact.

  It won’t happen again.

  Thanks for the guidance!

  ~Josh

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 8:35 pm

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  @cothen
  Yo! I just saw that. No bad. Do not rip off my answers without attribution. Backlink to them. Or make your own.

  It won’t happen again.

  Good thng because I am a warrior princess with very sharp sword. :)

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  cothen · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 8:42 pm

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  @timethief

  I will definitely backlink to all previous answers, for real!

  A lot of them may be yours… you’re everywhere! ;)

  Let me know if there are any more particulars I should know.

  Cheers!

  ~Josh

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  timethief · Member · Mar 23, 2017 at 8:49 pm

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  @cothen

  Hi there,
  I have been here for over 10 years. I predate support docs and all except one support staff member being on staff.

  A lot of them may be yours… you’re everywhere! ;)

  True and as I tag my threads answers are very easy to find by doing forum searches. Example: delete account