How do I close my account?

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    lyndalmckenzie · Member ·

    Hello,

    I won’t be needing my own WordPress account now….

    How do I deactivate my account and delete/cancel the small amount of work I did?

    Regards,
    Lyndal

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there.

    To delete your blog you must be logged in under the exact same username with which you created it. To prevent accidental deletion there will be multiple warnings that it cannot be reversed and you will have to click on a link in a confirmation email before your site will be deleted. Take note that there is no way to undo this. Both your blog’s content and address (URL) will be gone forever. http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/

    Keep in mind that after deleting, cached pages of your blog may still exist on search engines. This is, unfortunately, outside or WordPress.com’s control.

    You cannot delete your wordpress.com username account. This is for security reasons so others cannot claim your username and impersonate you. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

    The only details you were required to provide when signing up for your account was an email address. WordPress.com will never send you spam to that email address and also won’t sell it to third parties, as clearly stated in their privacy policy. You can disable all email notifications from your account settings:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-notifications/

    If you change that email to a throwaway address there will be no way your account could ever be linked to you. Any other details that you added yourself, you also have the power to delete yourself. See timethief’s instructions in this post on how to do that: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/06/02/deleting-accounts-blogs-and-content/

    If you used your real name as your username you can change that to a random username that cannot be connected to you. The existing username will then cease to exist and won’t be available for anyone, including you, to ever use again: http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

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