how do I start over? Your website is SOOOOOO FRUSTRATING! Trying to edit has taken all day and Im re

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  lorrainealicecalderonpottery · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 12:44 am

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  How do I start over? Your website is SOOOOOO FRUSTRATING! Trying to edit has taken all day and I’m ready to throw this lap top out the window. I want to start fresh with the same lorrainealicecalderonpottery.wordpress.com name, but I want to start all over with everything else.

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 2:04 am

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  There is no such thing as a theme reset button. We just undo whatever we did. Don’t delete the site URL because you will not be able to use it again for 2 years.

  You must be logged in under the username account that registered the site first. Then to empty the site and keep the URL you have two options:
  (1) Doing this quickly and easily yourself http://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/
  (2) Waiting in a queue and having Staff do it for you.

  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.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content does not remove indexed content 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 after it produces a 404 (page not found):
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1

  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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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 2:09 am

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  Every theme has a detailed theme description page like this one is at https://wordpress.com/themes/scratchpad/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://scratchpaddemo.wordpress.com/

  All support docs are at https://en.support.wordpress.com/

  You must be logged in under the exact same username that registered the site to be able to access the site. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:

  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

  Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

  To use the customizer see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

  All posts can be located at https://NAME_OF_BLOG .wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php

  Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

  All pages can be located at https://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page

  Replace NAME_OF_BLOG in that URL with the actual name of your blog.

  All media can be located at
  https://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/upload.php

  For creating a post in the New editor see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/#publish-a-new-post
  For creating a page in the new editor see here
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/#create-a-new-page

  For editing in the new editor see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/

  On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the step by step Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/

  See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/

  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page. If you need help setting up a custom menu see here https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages

  Any WordPress blog can be restructured from being post based to being page based – no upgrade required. For greater clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/
  See also:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-blog-setup/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/five-step-website-setup/

  re: switching themes

  Note that switching themes https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/#switch-themes can be easily done, provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the site. Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.

  The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.