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How do you delete an admin user in wordpress that wont delete
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I hired an indian company to do some work on three sites that I own. I used a freelancing platform and they have been banned and now when i check in my wordpress sites, the admin user will not delete. Everytime i try and delete them it comes back. I change the password and the email address, but when i check a couple of hours later it comes back again, giving them full control over my sites which they are playing around with. any help would be great.
I have tried going into the cpanel but it still will not delete. my hosting company has tried to delete them but it is not working
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Hi there!
Sorry to to hear that you are having trouble deleting a WordPress user. I'm sure that is very frustrating.
I found this link that might provide the answer you are looking for: http://www.wpexplorer.com/delete-wordpress-admin/
Hope this helps!
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I believe this is what you are looking for:
http://www.wpexplorer.com/delete-wordpress-admin/
If you have a developer inhouse, I am sure they will be able to do that easily.
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They don't happen to have multiple logins (different users) do they and keep creating a new user for themselves.
I would recommend changing your password, and then looking at all the other users - do you know them or can they be deleted.
At least you did it the right way and created them a login, the amount of people I know who they just sent across their own login details.
If its not the first option, please let me know I do have another idea - but the above idea is the easiest to explain and fix.
Thanks
Andy
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