I want to start over

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  alitweel · Member · Dec 25, 2014 at 4:07 pm

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  Hello,
  I want to start over and have all the posts, pages & comments, basically all the content since I imported an xml file by mistake without assigning other users and this resulted to have all the other users posts assigned to me, so I would like to have all the content to be deleted but I would like to keep the site address so I can import posts from my self hosted wordpress blog again the proper way after I import users one by one after I have exported their posts from my self hosted blog one by one.

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 25, 2014 at 5:48 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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  alitweel · Member · Dec 26, 2014 at 10:22 pm

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  Thanks, actually I had to do it manually and spend some time clicking before I received your reply!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 26, 2014 at 10:23 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes with your clean site. :)