I want to delete the content but not the website — how do I do that?

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  emilygiustini · Member · Oct 21, 2014 at 6:15 pm

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  I’d like to start my blog fresh after taking quite the break from it. Could you wonderfully helpful experts please delete all site content for me?

  Thank you!
  Emily

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 21, 2014 at 6:16 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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  emilygiustini · Member · Oct 21, 2014 at 6:18 pm

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  I understand the deletion would be permanent. Thank you.

  I’d like to start my blog fresh after taking quite the break from it. Could you wonderfully helpful experts please delete all site content for me?

  Thank you!
  Emily

  The blog I need help with is emilygteixeira.wordpress.com.

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  amightywp · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 2:56 pm

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  Hi Emily,

  Sure, that’s not a problem! I’ve gone ahead and emptied your blog of all content and you should now be good to go!

  Let me know if there’s anything else you need.

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  emilygiustini · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 3:32 pm

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  Thanks!

  Happiness complete. :)

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  amightywp · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 4:02 pm

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  Excellent! I hope you have a great rest of your week.