Start Over
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Hello. I want to delete my entire blog, but I want to keep my url to start over. I don’t think I have the energy to delete 2000+ posts through bulk actions.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hey tzaddiegueera!
Just wanted to warn to be careful during this process. To learn how to delete your site or for other alternative solutions, you can follow the instructions listed at https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
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Thanks!
Have you had any experience with this one option of having support clear all of your current content for you though?
Start Over
If you want a site but don’t want any of the posts and pages you have now, our support team can delete your posts, pages, media, and comments for you.
This will keep your site and URL active, but give you a fresh start on your content creation. Just contact us to have your current content cleared out.
Alternatively, you can delete all content from your site by following the steps here.
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Hello. I want to delete my entire blog, but I want to keep my url to start over.
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=1If 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;
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This is exactly what I needed help with, reaching Staff!
I don’t mind having all my current content deleted or about indexed content from serps all that much so this pretty much does it!
Thank you @timethief :)
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Dear Staff,
Please help me empty this blog: butteredprose.wordpress.com. I am fully aware that this procedure is irreversible.
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Good going now all you need to do is wait patiently for Staff to empty the site content for you. :)
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@tzaddiesguerra, can I recommend another alternative?
Try renaming your existing site to http://movedcontentbutteredprose.wordpress.com/ . Choose to keep the old URL (the one you want). When you’re done, all of your content will be at the new address, and the old URL will be totally empty.
We have a how-to here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/
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Wooow, this sounds like a really neat and quick way around it @supernovia. I’m gonna go ahead and try it when I can hop on the computer!
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Ah, glad that helped. :) I’d hate to see you lose all that content just because you wanted to use he name for something else. Cheers!
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