Site administrators can manage users they have added to a WordPress.com site. This guide covers how to remove a user, change a user’s role, and leave a site you don’t own.
In this guide
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As an administrator, follow these steps to remove any user account from your site except the site owner’s account:
Select the appropriate tab for your admin interface style:
- Visit your site’s dashboard.
- Navigate to Users → All Users.
- Click on the user whom you would like to delete.
- For sites without plugins, you will see the “Remove [Name]” button to remove the user. After removing the user, you can bulk edit posts and reassign content to a different user.
- For plugin-enabled sites, you will be prompted to choose whether to attribute content to another user or delete the content.
- You can then click the “Delete user” button to remove the user.
If you have been added to a site as a Contributor, Author, Editor, or Administrator, you can remove yourself from that site. Administrators can leave a site only if they are not also the site owner. To leave a site, follow these steps:
- Visit the Sites page.
- Click the ellipsis (⋮) under Actions and select Settings from the drop-down menu:
- Click the “Leave site” button:
- Read the pop-up that says leaving will revoke your access to the site, including all content, users, domains, upgrades, and anything else you have access to.
- Check the box and click the “Leave site” button again to proceed.
The site owner and other administrators can change other users’ roles by following the steps below.
- Starting in the site’s dashboard, navigate to the Users section.
- Click the user whose role you would like to change.
- Select the new role from the Role dropdown.
The site owner’s role cannot be set to anything other than administrator. If you want to set the site owner to another role, first transfer ownership of the site to another user.
