Title: Can't Delete a User Admin
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Can't Delete a User Admin

 *  [jessed2011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessed2011/)
 * (@jessed2011)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-a-user-admin/)
 * Hi folks if someone could help with this it would be great. I’m not very techy.
 * I had a VA design my site for me. The site is now complete and I went to change
   my password for the site and I noticed a new Admin user called “admins” I went
   to delete it but it keeps repopulating with a new ID# and will not disappear.
   I have know idea to get rid of this admin user.
    It also says there is 8 assigned
   administrator accounts.
 * I’ve tried deleting in the users section. I’ve tried deleting in MyPHPadmin users
   section of my hosting account, but still no joy.
 * Any help would be appreciated as I feel my site is now compromised.
 * Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-a-user-admin/#post-6574374)
 * Are you logged in as the admin user you are trying to delete? That could be the
   problem.
 * Otherwise, you should be able to delete any user.

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 * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/)
 * [users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/users/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-a-user-admin/#post-6574374)
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