When you register a username account at WordPress.com the email address you provide becomes your unique identifier. When you are logged into WordPress.com and register a blog it’s registered to that username account and associated email address. You can register as many blogs as you wish and provided you are logged in, all the blogs you register will be registered under that username account and the associated email address.
Deleting a Blog
To delete a WordPress.com blog, go to Tools -> Delete Site in your Dashboard. You will undertake a step by step process wherein three warnings will be issued letting you know the result will be permanently deleting the blog address ie. URL and all content. An email confirmation will be sent with a verification link in it and when you click that link the blog address ie. URL will be deleted forevermore. Note that deleted blog addresses ie. URLs are not recycled at WordPress.com.
Deleting Blog Content
If you decide you no longer want your WordPress.com blog content but do want to retain the blog address ie. the URL, you can easily delete all blog content by yourself.
If your content is a large collection then you can post to the WordPress.com support forum and Staff will delete all the content for you.
Deleting a Username Account
Username accounts are not deleted at WordPress.com. This is what you can do:
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
http://wordpress.com/#!/read/subsettings/
and click on “Block all email updates from blogs you’re following on WordPress.com”.
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:
4. To hide your Gravatar profile, please read “How do I hide my profile?” section of the Gravatar help page.
Thank all, I need it…
I had to create a WordPress.com account when it was required to use Akismet. Now that it has been separated from that I would like to do a few things for house cleaning but there does not seem to be any way. I wonder if you could steer me in the right direction.
1. Under one WordPress.com login I had several “Blogs” listed one being the primary blog. There does not seem to be a way to change or delete it. I changed that to a WordPress.com blog but it still wants to associate the login with a site that I will take down. Is there a way to delete these blogs from the list?
2. Is it possible to delete a WP.com account for good? I read your instructions which essentially obfuscate the blog behind a huge password, is that the only way?
Thanks if you get a chance to reply, thanks even if you don’t since you have already provided useful information.
re: 1. You need to post to the support forum http://en.forums.wordpress.com
re: 2 WordPress.com username accounst are never deleted. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
Thanks, I will post these to the WP support.
Blocking email updates– I’ve got a feeling that’s going to come in very handy in future! Thanks, TT! : )
If you don’t want to be deluged by email and who does? Then it’s important to know how to deal with email notifications. If one ever chooses to leave it’s good to know how to free up their email address and lock the account down, so to speak.
Hello! Thank you for being such a problem destroyer! I hope might have time to Help me or tell find the Help to following. One of my followers says, that she’s always have to try to type a comment on my worpress blog 3 times before it will manage. She says the it won’t accept the code. She says that I could hire her IT expert, but I would try to hear you first. Have a wonderful Day.
Please have that follower post to the support forums for help with this issue. http://en.forums.wordpress.com
Okay, thank you so much!
I hope your follower gets help in the forum so she can comment easily.
Very useful post TT, thank you, hope you are having a good summer :)
Hi Joannna,
Thanks for the visit. I hope your summer is going well too.
I’m still disapointed, raging, and mad for Google/Blogger for shutting down my blog without prior notice. They wanted me to give a cell phone number to verify and get it back.
Raging mad! … but eventually I walked away from it and came to WordPress. 6 years of blogging down the drain. New start! :) See you in the BC threads!
I really don’t know what to say to you about what you have experienced. Welcome to WordPress.com.
Thanks TT! :)
Hey there,
You’re welcome.
Brilliant! You’ve read my mind and answered the precise question I need to know. Thank you so much, timethief! This is really useful.
Hi there,
I’m glad this proved to be a timely and useful post for you.
That’s exactly what I have done. There isn’t much there, but before I found the ‘read it later’ service, I would use that to store feeds. The truth is, the only reason I used WordPress is my passion for the template–a four column set up with the Caribbean background. I thought it would suit a multimedia project, but it didn’t work out, but I do have a better idea of how to set one up on a website. Hence, I still have my account, so I don’t have to register every time I comment on WP blogs.
Hope all is well with you, TiTi. I should be out here in another month, (I’ve found over the last year I say that a lot!) This time, I’ll tunnel out if I have to. I ain’t stickin’ around all these screws and twists, ya hear me? :;) Thanx for the notes. I’ve been downloading your pages, and have them read out loud to me, but it needs tweaking. Missing you and the BC singers. xxxoo ttyl Law
Being able to comment on WordPress.com blogs without a hassle is the way to go. I’m glad you have an account because that makes commenting easy as pie.
It’s so good to hear from you and I hope that a month from now your are out of there and home again. I’m doing well at present. No health issues at the moment just exhaustion as we are renovating, and getting more sleep is something I must do to avoid a health collapse.
Wishing you well always,
TiTi
Another option to consider if you think that you want to delete your blog is to make it private. This means it will disappear from the web, and from the search engines in time but later you can reactivate it if you change your mind, assign it to someone else who emails you saying that “just has to have xxx.wordpress.com”, or delete the content and reuse the URL yourself
Tandava,
Thanks for making that important point. We Volunteers answering support forum questions always recommend changing privacy settings, as opposed to blog deletion.
WordPress is user friendly. I can switch between two blogs without the any hassle. Great tip TT.
Thanks Baxter. :)
Morning, I am pleased to inform you that I have nominated you for The Versatile Blogger award. I love the way you help others with blogging! The next step is posted at my blog. Enjoy!
Please don’t be offended but I have been awarded the same award by several bloggers now and I choose to decline accepting any awards. I don’t want to offend anyone by leaving them out so for me it’s best not to participate.
Time their I have posted my problem in forum three times in two weeks no one answers. Can u tell me where I can get support my blogs address is http://diakiws.wordpress.com. My users name was diakiws. It was changed to jdiakiwsblog Now I cannot get access to the diakiws.wordpress except to view it but cannot post. Get redirected to a new blog jdiakiwsblog. With no posts except this question.
Sorry auto correct. I meant time thief
I’m so sorry to hear that but I’m not in a position to help you. You must post directly to the support forums in order to get Staff help. http://en.forums.wordpress.com
Thanks, I have created two additional blogs and can access them both via my original blog account. This is cool to be able to navigate among the three blogs. I created The Workout Club and one for my upcoming Not-for-profit organization that is not viewable.