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Deleting Admin

DavidCortez

Published on December 15, 2013

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Deleting Admin is another way to secure your Wordpress site.

check this before you continue:

Backup Wordpress To DropBox Tutorial Video by welshy

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

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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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I am adding this Tutorial to the bottom of this and the top to make sure you do this first.

Backup Wordpress To DropBox Tutorial Video by welshy

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