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  communityactioncorvallis · Member · Dec 6, 2016 at 10:09 pm

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  Can I please start Over I have saved all of the content that I want… But I seem to have screwed up something in the process of constructing it… I want to start over – how do I do this?

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2016 at 10:11 pm

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  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 are not logged in under the correct username account then clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies prior to logging into another account

  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 have a lot of content and 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 you want them to empty;
  (2) confirm that you know content deletion is irreversible.

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  communityactioncorvallis · Member · Dec 6, 2016 at 10:15 pm

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  Is there a way to just reset the whole account.. keep the URL but act like I was just starting?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2016 at 10:19 pm

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  I posted how to do that above and have now typed modlook into the tags for you.

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  communityactioncorvallis · Member · Dec 6, 2016 at 10:21 pm

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  Thanks I only asked because it looks like I’m only deleting old content in what you have above – What I want is a total restart… Thank you for your help! I’m a complete newbie at this and I do not mean to ask questions that seem obvious BUT… I’m new at this.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2016 at 10:23 pm

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  There is no such thing as a theme reset button. We go back and undo whatever we did.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Dec 7, 2016 at 1:59 pm

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  Hi there,

  Your site has only 7 pages on it. You delete all those at once using the Bulk Edit feature on this page:

  https://communityactioncorvallis.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page

  Then you can start from scratch.

  Settings and customizations cannot be reset, however, as @timethief also indicated above.

  However, instead of deleting everything, rather take a look at your theme’s instructions and see if you can’t fix things by just rearranging a bit:

  https://wordpress.com/themes/pique/

  I’m also happy to help you if you tell me what you are trying to do.