2 Short But Important Questions About Drafts

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  oliverdsw · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 1:03 am

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  Hello, I have some questions about the draft function on my free wordpress blog.

  1) When I use the export function of my blog (selecting the option ‘all content’), are drafts included ?
  2) Especially when the answer to the above is yes: is there any way to delete any drafts that I don’t need any more ? And, if that isn’t possible on the free wordpress blogs, is there any way someone from the support could do that ?

  Thanks.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 9:02 pm

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  When I use the export function of my blog (selecting the option ‘all content’), are drafts included ?

  Yep!

  is there any way to delete any drafts that I don’t need any more ?

  You can delete drafts in bulk that you no longer need. You can find all of your drafts here:

  https://oliverdsw.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=draft&post_type=post

  To use the bulk edit (much faster), follow the steps here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit

  Let me know if you need anything else!

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  oliverdsw · Member · Dec 20, 2014 at 11:29 pm

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  Thanks for the answer mate ! I have indeed abother question, or so to speak the same again… but I think I used a wrong term there, sorry; english is not my native language ;-)

  I didn’t mean drafts, but post revisions. So the questions again: are they included when I back up my blog, and if yes; can they be deleted ? Thanks guys.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 21, 2014 at 12:05 am

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  You cannot delete post revisions. Is there some reason you need to do that?

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 22, 2014 at 6:21 pm

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  @oliverdsw – I just gave this a test, and it doesn’t look like post revisions are carried over for drafts with an export/import. However, as @1tess mentions, it isn’t possible to delete old post revisions.

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  oliverdsw · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 2:39 am

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  @1tess not that they are bothering me (they can be helpful indeed), but I considered they might cause problems when exporting a blog to a xml-file (especially when the articles are long and the file gets too big).

  @jeremeylduvall thanks for the answer, that’s all I needed to know. Right know I am trying to reduce my tags, so the export file gets a bit smaller. I think this one can be closed.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 3:49 pm

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  @oliverdsw – Great! If you have any additional trouble with the export/import process, drop us a line.