Title: deleting users
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# deleting users

 *  [jbjaaaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbjaaaz/)
 * (@jbjaaaz)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-2/)
 * We have a blog at work for internal news and goofying about. When an employee
   leaves and I delete their account, I’d rather not have their posts be reassigned
   to a different user. Is there a plugin which allows you to delete a user, but
   have their posts still attached to that persons name? Perhaps a way to “archive”
   the user, or maybe even just disable the account.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-2/#post-406752)
 * Can you change the password of the user’s account?
 * Maybe you could change their status to something lower, maybe subscriber? That
   way they can still sign in and leave comments with their original profile. Not
   sure if that will mean that their posts will get changed, though
 * It would be nice it worked: if anything, it’s a bit more friendly than deleting
   their account! Though if the blog was installed on an intranet I guess that wouldn’t
   matter too much 🙂
 *  [manstraw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manstraw/)
 * (@manstraw)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-2/#post-406781)
 * I just reduce them to subscriber. You can also change their email to yours so
   they can’t recover the password should you change their password to lock them
   out entirely. Changing their password and email is all you really need do to 
   disable their access.

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