Title: Empty Blog
Author: Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh)
Published: <strong>December 30, 2011</strong>
Last modified: December 14, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Empty Blog

 By [Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dllh/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/empty-blog.0.9.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/empty-blog/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/empty-blog/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/empty-blog/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/empty-blog/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/empty-blog/)

## Description

Delete posts, pages, links, tags, and categories from your blog with one admin tool
rather than having to handle deletion of all of these as separate actions.

Select from post types and tick a box to determine whether or not to delete tags,
categories, and links. A javascript prompt will keep you from submitting by accident.

Users must have the “Manage Options” capability in order to use this.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

 1. Upload `empty-blog.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. You should find an “Empty Blog” item under the “Options” menu.

Users must have the “Manage Options” capability.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Empty Blog” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dllh/)
 *   [ Brooke. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brookedot/)

[Translate “Empty Blog” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/empty-blog)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/empty-blog/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/empty-blog/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/empty-blog/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/empty-blog/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.9

 * Add `future` to `post_status` array to remove scheduled posts.
 * Move inline CSS to their own CSS file
 * Only include empty blog CSS/JS on the Empty Blog Admin Page

#### 0.8

 * Uses get_terms() instead of deprecated get_all_category_ids()
 * WordPress core verison bump 4.0

#### 0.7

 * Minor style tweaks.
 * Adds link deletion.

#### 0.6

 * Adds jQuery script and a “select all post types” checkbox.
 * As part of the “select all” addition, changes post types form control to a set
   of checkboxes and adds some styling.
 * Fixes a typo in a header.
 * Removes incorrect use of a variable within a call to __().

#### 0.5

 * The very first version.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.9**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.3.21**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/empty-blog/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[dev](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dev/)
   [pages](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pages/)[posts](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/empty-blog/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dllh/)
 *   [ Brooke. ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/brookedot/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/empty-blog/)