Under Article 17 of the GDPR individuals have the right to have personal data erased. This is also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’.

• The GDPR introduces a right for individuals to have personal data erased.
• The right to erasure is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’.
• Individuals can make a request for erasure verbally or in writing.
• You have one month to respond to a request.
• The right is not absolute and only applies in certain circumstances.
• This right is not the only way in which the GDPR places an obligation on you to consider whether to delete personal data.

Delete own comments

Users can delete own comments using the “My Content and Settings” button located on top left side of the main comment form. This button opens pop-up window with a list of current user all comments and delete buttons.

This button also allows Guests to delete own comments with email confirmation. Guests click on [Delete all my comments] button and receive a “Delete all comments” link on the email address they used to post comments. In this way guests confirm ownership of comments they want to delete, and they do that securely.

Deleting Personal Information

WordPress allows you to delete a member from the Dashboard > Users admin page.

Deleting User Content

If a user has posted some comments, you can select to delete the content, or keep it but remove the author’s details thereby attributing all content to another user.

In case you need to delete not registered commenter comments you should use the WordPress comment moderation admin page (Dashboard > Comments). Just search comments by email and using the bulk actions delete them.