# Deleting Users on WP Deletes Them on Discourse?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-users-on-wp-deletes-them-on-discourse/73689>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [November 8, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-users-on-wp-deletes-them-on-discourse/73689 "2017-11-08T14:12:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-users-on-wp-deletes-them-on-discourse/73689/4 "2017-11-09T00:17:50Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> You have to deal with the user manually on Discourse

You can’t delete a user who has posts, and if the user is deleted in WordPress, they won’t be able to log in to Discourse, so it doesn’t really matter. Unless, you subsequently turn off SSO and have people activate accounts on Discourse.

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