Title: Deleting users
Last modified: August 26, 2020

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# Deleting users

 *  [scargill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scargill/)
 * (@scargill)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-6/)
 * I am having trouble deleting my admin user. I’ve been getting lots of criminal
   attempts to login using admin – so I’ve changed to another username, but I cannot
   delet the admin user because the dropdown list refuses to show the new user in
   order to transfer content from admin to that user. I have several thousand users
   on the blog.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/).
      Reason: moved to fixing wordpress

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 *  [a2hostingrj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a2hostingrj/)
 * (@a2hostingrj)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-6/#post-13317944)
 * That’s going to be a very difficult task. I do not recommend deleting a row from
   wp_users, because rows in other tables will be orphaned and may create bad side
   effects.
 * May I suggest to look into change the username of that administrator via database.
   There are some guides out there that explain how to do that. However, before 
   doing any change **create a full backup of your database and files**.
 *  Thread Starter [scargill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scargill/)
 * (@scargill)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-6/#post-13318230)
 * I found it – gone. It would help immensely if WordPress lists of users would 
   appear in some kind of order – alphabetical would be a good start. That dropdown
   list appears almost random.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by [scargill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scargill/).

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [scargill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scargill/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-6/#post-13318230)
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