Start Over with Default WordPress Setting
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Hi, I dont just want to delete all the posts, I want to restore the default wordpress settings too. How do I do that? Can the wordpress admin help me with this?
Thanks,
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You’ve only been here 3 hours and have next to nothing to delete.
The good news is that you can delete it quickly and easily yourself. See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/
However, if you want to wait in a lengthy queue for Staff to do this for you, they 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 waiting is what you want to do then leave the modlook tag in the sidebar.
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Here is some help for starting again.
Every theme has a detailed theme description page with set up instructions like this one https://wordpress.com/themes/edin/ and a live demo site like this one https://edindemo.wordpress.com/
You will find the theme page link on the footer of your front page of your site at http://amandacascio.wordpress.com/
re: the front page error message found on every new .wordpress.com blog
There is nothing wrong with your blog.
By default, the front page of the blog is the only page that will display all published posts on it. As soon as you publish a post, not a page, the error message will be gone. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
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-pageFor 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.
A blog is a website. The difference between blog and website is simply structure and semantics.
A blog is a post based website designed for interactive communication. As the posts are frequently updated and appear on the front page of the site it’s very attractive to search engines.
What most people call a website is merely a page based site that functions as a one-way noticeboard. As the structure is page based and as pages are for static content that rarely changes, and as pages do not have RSS feeds, and as others do not backlink to pages, it is not as attractive to search engines as a post based blog structured site is.
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/
and my post at https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/ -
Hi! Thanks for your reply.
No need to ‘start over’, managed to play around and did some damage control. Thanks!
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