Deleting Admin
Deleting Admin is another way to secure your Wordpress site.
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Click Dashboard
Click Add New User
On New User put a name other than your own. Example:
bigbadbear2014
add your email
put your real first name on first name
same on your last name
add your website if you wish
on your password use caps numbers or whatever you can imagine
check the send password
on role. scroll down and select administrator
Click on add new user.
Log out of admin
ok thats the first part
Second Part
Sign in as your new admin: bigbadbear2014
Ok you should be at your dashboard
Click Users
Click on your new user name: bigbadbear2014
Click Edit
Check everything that you want displayed
Important: Select your Name on Display name publicly as
add any information you wish to be displayed including Google plus
Click Update Profile
Now to Delete Admin
Click on Users
Hoover your pointer over admin
You should see a choice edit or delete if you don't then you have to sign back into admin and edit bigbadbear2014. find under Role. Scroll and find admin and select role for user. Sign out and Click Users. Check to see if you now have the options to edit or delete.
Ok you have the option to delete. Guess what you do next. That's right click delete.
You Should be taken to a new page Delete User
On the page select Attribute All post to (your user name)
Click Confirm Deletion.
Now Pray just Kidding
You are now the admin. It will add a little more security to your Wordprees site.
Hint if you Have Wealthy Affiliate Hosting your site. You can use the password given to you when your site was created and have it when you sign in to WA.
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In all the years I have been at this, I have never once deleted an admin user nor have I been hacked. Be careful if you are going to do this.