Safely Delete a WordPress User

Navigate to the Users > All Users menu and locate the user you wish to delete.

Hover over the user's name - a small menu will appear beneath the user's name - click 'Delete'

This bit's the important bit: decide what you want to do with their content:

• Delete the content. Not a good idea if this was your web developer as you may delete all the pages on your website!
• Assign to another user.

Confirm the deletion by clicking the Confirm button.

Potentially not a disaster - the content will be in the Bin / Trash. You can navigate to the bin and you should be able to restore most of the content. This can be a little messy though so we advise taking a backup of your database first.

To prevent a user making changes and accessing important parts of your dashboard, you can just edit their account and change their role to Subscriber