REMOVE FOLLOWER — IMPORTANT

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  livingintheshadows2018 · Member · Jan 21, 2015 at 4:04 am

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  I need to remove a follower for personal reasons. This is very important. How can I do this???
  (email visible only to moderators and staff)
  Ho do I do this?
  Thanks!
  HB

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 21, 2015 at 8:46 am

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  Hi there. I’m afraid there is no way to remove a follower from a public blog – “public” means it’s accessible to anyone on the internet at any time.

  The only way to control over who can follow you is to set your blog to private. Then only people you specifically invite will be able to read your blog and you can uninvite anyone at any point.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  The closest you can come to blocking a follower on a public blog is to block them from commenting, but you can’t block them from following or reading.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

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  livingintheshadows2018 · Member · Jan 21, 2015 at 4:41 pm

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  Can I make it private and remove this follower?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 21, 2015 at 5:03 pm

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  If you set your blog to private none of your followers will be able to read it anymore. Then you can add people back who you want to have access by inviting them as viewers.

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  livingintheshadows2018 · Member · Jan 21, 2015 at 5:04 pm

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  Thank you.