WordPress – Delete Posts Do you know how to delete any post in WordPress? Here is the solution, how to delete a post in WordPress as well as the bulk of post at the same time. It is not necessary to keep junk contents in your WordPress site. It will only grow your side negatively, so it is good to remove junk contents. Always keep your site fresh, accurate, and up to date. In this article, there are mainly two types of post deleting methods, one of them is deletion of the single post, and another is deleting the bulk of WordPress post at a time.
How to delete a single WordPress post? All the steps are given along with pictures for references.
- Initially, click on Posts in the left panel of WordPress and then click on All Post.
- Now, hover your mouse cursor over the post title, you want to delete. As you hover your mouse cursor over the post name, some options come to appear. Click on the Trash for deleting your post. You may take help of screenshot which is attached below.
- You can also confirm from the screenshot given below if the post is deleted.
- Now, click on Apply button to delete the bulk contents which are selected. Using this default way, you can only select 20 contents at a time. If You want to delete more than this limit, you can use the following method.
Just click on the Screen Options button at the top right corner of the screen. This will bring a pull-down menu where you want to change the Number of items per page to any number you want. Now put the number as you wish.
- Upon activation, go to Bulk WP then click on Bulk Delete Posts page in your WordPress admin area to delete articles. The plugin offers multiple methods to filter and select posts that you need to delete.
