Title: delete all posts Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # delete all posts * [txdays](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txdays/) * (@txdays) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/) * how can i delete 100s of post quickly and easily * wp1.5 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149510) * All of them ? Drop all the database tables. * **That really will erase ALL of your blog.** * [orangeguru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orangeguru/) * (@orangeguru) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149512) * WP has very poor content management functions … *sigh* * Thread Starter [txdays](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txdays/) * (@txdays) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149513) * I want every post gone….what do i drop * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149514) * the wp_posts table. * [bloodylamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloodylamer/) * (@bloodylamer) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149516) * good job, guys. you just helped a hacker delete someone’s entire blog 🙂 * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149518) * I doubt a hacker would need to ask. For the hacker to be able to do this, he would need the mysql password as well as any other passwords before that. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149519) * What a perfect time to plug the backup instructions! * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_up_your_database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_up_your_database) * [orangeguru](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orangeguru/) * (@orangeguru) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149520) * [@podz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/): MovablteType has some really nice power editing features. WP could use them as well. *hinthint* 😉 * [bloodylamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloodylamer/) * (@bloodylamer) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149522) * podz: ok, how about a disgruntled, computer-illiterate (ex)friend? * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149524) * bloodylamer – a question was asked, an answer was supplied. * As much as this may or may not be related to you, it is not the job of people who answer to ascertain the identity and motivations of a question-asker. We just can’t. * The simple fact is this – if someone sets the passwords to their webspace and functions within it to be very simple and easy to guess, then you have made yourself a target. The weakest part of your website security is you – the person who chooses the passwords. * I did click your name when you made that first comemnt and your blog still exists. * Need a password ? Google “Any Password”. Use it to generate you pw’s. And change them. * [pericat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pericat/) * (@pericat) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149533) * Back to the subject, I think one is safer dropping all tables, rather than just wp_posts, since there’s all the comments to get rid of as well. * [bloodylamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bloodylamer/) * (@bloodylamer) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149536) * podz: sorry for wasting your time. I was only joking 🙂 * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-149577) * Pericat is right. It’s safer and easier to trash the entire database and then create a new one, especially if you’re deleting all posts. You might as well start over from the beginning. * [electrolund](https://wordpress.org/support/users/electrolund/) * (@electrolund) * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-150220) * I’ve done this tip, delete the database tables to remove all my posts. But the categories still show their original post count in the admin manage tab. Any way to clear out the count too? * The only reason I didn’t just “start over” is that I didn’t want to inadvertently trash all the settings, plugins, themes, etc. Is there a better way? * [Joshua Sigar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alphaoide/) * (@alphaoide) * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/#post-150221) * You might want to clear *post2cat table as well Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘delete all posts’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 21 replies * 10 participants * Last reply from: [hitman77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hitman77/) * Last activity: [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-all-posts-1/page/2/#post-150284) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics