Can I delete all posts to restart

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  gorsefox · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 9:40 am

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  I would like to delete all the posts in my blog in order to restart. How can I do this? (There are over 5000 posts to be removed).

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

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  mwdowns · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 10:01 am

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  You might want to take a look at this plugin: WP Mass Delete. It should allow you to delete all your posts. Is that what you’re looking for?

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  gorsefox · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 10:10 am

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  Thanks for the suggestion, but it says in the help that the support staff can delete all the posts for me, so I was hoping to do it without installing anything extra.
  I will keep WP Mass Delete up my sleeve as Plan B!

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  citadelinfotech · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 11:04 am

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  You can’t use any plugins here in wp.com, so you have to do it by manually, Or you can take help from wp support.

  Go to Dashboard -> Manage -> Posts and keep hitting delete.

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  mwdowns · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 12:08 pm

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  Oh, man, I had no idea that WordPress.com and WordPress.org were different things and not compatible. I’m a bonehead. Sorry about that.

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  gorsefox · Member · Dec 7, 2015 at 12:43 pm

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  Thanks citadelinfotech, but with more than 5000 posts to kill off this seems like a sub-optimal solution. Even selecting using the bulk selector seems to limit me to 19 entries at a time.

  I was hoping to get help from WP Support, but cannot work out how to get to them as all roads and links seem to bring me back here.