How to Delete and Trash Posts and or Pages
I helped another WA member with this recently and have been asked a few times since then. I decided to put the procedure here in a Blog so it's easy to find.
"in the dashboard section, click on PAGES, and there is your list of pages... now take your mouse and hover the curser under the name of your page... now you will see the choices of QUICK EDIT, EDIT, TRASH , VIEW. Choose TRASH, and your page will be trashed, kind of thrown into the garbage :) Next step is the real delete part... along the top of that list of Pages, are the choices ALL and beside it is the number of pages you have, including those saved in Draft mode, beside that is PUBLISHED and the number of published pages you have and last you will see the word TRASH again, with the number of pages you tossed into it. Click on TRASH and you will be given the choice of taking them back out of the trash can or tossing them to the curb which is EMPTY TRASH. Choose the pages that you want to delete permanently by clicking on the box to the left of your page, and then just under the title of that page (use your mouse to hover over that area and it will pop up) is the choice DELETE PERMANENTLY...or RESTORE if you want to keep the page after all......And that is it. Same procedure for Posts."
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I understand that part of it per se. However, I find it difficult to determine WHICH ones are to be saved and which to delete because there is no corresponding view of the actual page.
Maybe it is just me, but without seeing which one is actually showing on the published site due to several being shown as published. Example; 3 about me pages published , All very similar in text , all show published , now you bring them up one at a time, they still don't show which one is on site. So, which one do you delete?
And then, If you are able to determine which one to keep what if edit doesn't keep your changes , or rather in my case only keeps some of the changes you make and the goes back to leaving blank spaces and sliding sentences away from themselves and starting paragraphs in the wrong spots. Now remember some of the changes took as did color updates? So that means I am doing things correctly. Why does edit not keep all the edits made?
If you click the update button after every change you make, it should keep the changes. If it does not, your Theme could be at fault. You must have a LOT of pages that you plan on deleting? I rarely delete a page, I would rather just change it through editing. Are you having to delete them because you CANNOT change them? If so, I would change Themes. I just changed Themes today, with my new website. The previous Theme just would not allow me to make certain changes regarding my images and other things. Some Themes are just more trouble than they are worth.
Hi, I well I am trying to delete the ones that are not necessary . I have done several revisions of my about me page because the site content or the theme has made my versions look terrible by putting spaces in sentences and starting paragraphs at the end of the previous paragraph and when I make edits some of the edit takes and some doesn't. I am using a theme called "little jump". I already made some progress by using the left side alignment icon in the tool bar. But there are still some problems like the Sentences. The theme has the presentation that I am looking for. Go to https://www.bestonlinemoneyaffiliate.com/aboutscott, and you will see what I mean ,, Thanks Scott
my Norton Virus protection keeps kicking me out of your site..I get a glimpse and then poof! I tried 4 times. Norton is an over protective 'hen'. I sent a report to Norton, that your URL is harmless. Maybe it will let me in tomorrow.
Thank you, I've had trouble with norton before , I know they have a decent rating but still. I hope you can get in . On the version that you will be viewing the problems are at the end . But those same problems occurred at the beginning before I used the left side lay out in the tool bar. You will still see problems in the beginning, But not like at the end.
I should be much further along in both training and site development , but this problem has plagued me since 12/22/17 when I purchased a theme called Iconic One Pro, It looked quite similar to the layout of little jump but it offered easy swap out colors, for one. You could visit my site one day and it would be able to be blue and with the press of a button you could go there 10 minutes later and it would have red accent. But It gave me the same problems of sentence break up and paragraph displacement as this theme , but I did not know about the problem of justifying at that point so, I asked the developer for my money back which he returned on the same day. Any way I hope you can get in to see it. Thank you Scott
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Great info, thank you for sharing ~