starting over

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  jlseldon7 · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 4:42 pm

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  I’d like to start over. How do I do that?

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

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  ericmwalker · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 4:46 pm

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  I think you might find this WordPress.com support article helpful as it details out how to Empty your Site: https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/

  Hope that is what you are looking for.

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  jlseldon7 · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 5:00 pm

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  Is there an easy way to mass delete posts?

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  ericmwalker · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 5:29 pm

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  I think the only way I know to mass delete posts only is by using the Bulk actions as described on this page: https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/#deleting-posts

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  timethief · Member · Feb 24, 2016 at 5:29 pm

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  @jlseldon7
  You have two options:

  (1) Doing this yourself http://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/
  (2) Having Staff do it.

  If you want to retain the blog URL (note that no deleted URL can be registered again) https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/ and you are willing to wait rather than doing this yourself http://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/ then 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 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 again into this thread to:

  (1) confirm the URL of the blog you want them to empty;
  (2) confirm that you know content deletion is irreversible.