bulk delete

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  azbikelaw · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 5:26 pm

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  how can i bulk delete all posts at once?
  (i have 700 posts; the only option i see is a checkbox to ‘select all’ which only appear to select 20 at a time)

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 5:27 pm

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  You can’t is the simple answer. If you have a lot of content Staff can empty the whole blog for you. That will remove all data including posts, pages, tags, categories, comments, and uploaded files and once deleted, the data cannot be recovered.

  If you are sure you want Staff to proceed, and you are prepared to wait then type modlook into the tags in the sidebar of this thread for Staff attention, and post here again to:
  (1) confirm the URL of the blog(s) you want them to empty;
  (2) confirm that you know content deletion is irreversible.

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  azbikelaw · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 6:27 pm

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  thx timethief for that explanation.

  One other thing, that i don’t think will work, but I’ll ask anyway…
  If i delete the whole blog; and then immediately make a new one with the same name, will that work?

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  azbikelaw · Member · Feb 20, 2017 at 6:49 pm

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  oops, sorry should have looked myself,
  so “recycling” a site name is a hard-no, for some reason (i don’t follow why it would be a problem to allow the owner to recycle, but that’s the answer apparently)…

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/