Deleting All Posts and Media

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  rescueeffect · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 12:56 am

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  I looked on the support page for emptying my site and it said I could contact the wordpress team if I have a lot of content and wanted to delete it all. I want to delete every post and all the media from my blog and would like the team to please do this for me. Thank you!

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 11:03 pm

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  You have two options for emptying blog content and retaining the blog URL.

  option 1
  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog, you can quickly remove your contents by deleting them in bulk.
  bulk delete images & media http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/deleting-files/#bulk-deletion
  bulk delete posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#bulk-edit
  bulk delete pages > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/#bulk-edit
  Here’s how to permanently delete Trash >
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#deleting-permanently

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blog content does not remove it from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

  option 2
  If you have lots of content and are willing to wait, 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, then type modlook into the tags in the sidebar for Staff attention and post again to this thread to:

  (1) confirm the URL of the blog you want them to empty;
  (2) confirm that you know content deletion is irreversible.

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  amightywp · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 11:04 pm

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  Hi Cortney,

  Because this is a permanent action, could you please state the site which you would like to be completely emptied of all posts, pages, comments, and media?

  Once you do, I’ll get started on that.

  Thank you very much!

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  rescueeffect · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 11:16 pm

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  My blog username is ‘rescueeffect’ and my main email is (email visible only to moderators and staff). Thank you so much!

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  amightywp · Member · Dec 30, 2014 at 11:35 pm

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  I’m sorry Cortney, but what I need is the blog name. It’ll start with http:// and end with .wordpress.com. That’s the bit I need, please!

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  rescueeffect · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 12:13 am

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  http://rescueeffect.wordpress.com/

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  bonitaaa99 · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 12:25 am

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  I’m having the opposite problem, when I posted a pic on my site with the caption as my Blog logo… it looked fine but when I posted another story the picture with all my other stories were gone, I don’t know why.. They didn’t even move down they were just gone… How do I stop my stories from disappearing? is it just that I only have one page of room to publish stories on??

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 1:09 am

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  Please start a new thread for your issue. And do a forum search: many people have asked this question.

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  amightywp · Member · Dec 31, 2014 at 4:39 pm

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  Hi Cortney,

  Thanks very much! You’re all set. Your site has been emptied and is ready for you to get started again.

  Let me know if you need anything else.