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  thedelighteddoe · Member · May 19, 2016 at 7:46 pm

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  Hello. I am new to this, and have been working through the kinks. I think I have figured out how to get my page to look how I want, but I would really like to start completely over to avoid having to reverse engineer my mistakes. How can I start fresh with my same page.

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

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  timethief · Member · May 19, 2016 at 7:50 pm

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  There is no theme reset button you can click.

  You must be logged in under the username account that registered the site first. Then to empty the site content and start over using the same URL ie. blog address 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.

  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, 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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  timethief · Member · May 19, 2016 at 7:50 pm

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  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting public blogs and/or blog content from them 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

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  thedelighteddoe · Member · May 19, 2016 at 7:54 pm

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  Thank you timethief. So, I posted modlook in the tags, and I am certain I want my blog to be cleared out. The blog is thedelighteddoe.wordpress.com. I don’t mind waiting, so I can have a fresh start.

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  andrewspittle · Staff · May 19, 2016 at 10:40 pm

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  Hi, all set. I just emptied the site for you. It may take just a couple of minutes to process.

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  thedelighteddoe · Member · May 20, 2016 at 12:59 am

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  Thank you!