In this video,  you’re going to learn how to clean up a new WordPress blog. If you’ve just installed your WordPress blog, then there are already some default posts, default comments, and default links that will appear in your WordPress blog.  Since this the standard default information,  it’s important that you  remove these entries manually.

One thing you’ll probably notice is that there is  already sample comment from Mr. WordPress. Now, Mr. WordPress is just a fictional character, and this default post and comment will appear in every new WordPress blog. So you may want to delete this comment by just clicking on “Delete” here.

Next, you probably want to have a look at the default post, and also delete that post. So you can click on the post link here, and you can see the default post here, which is called “Hello World.”

So I’m just going check that and I can either delete from here, or I can also just put my mouse over the post, and you’ll see some all your options appear, so I’m just going to click on Delete.

Next, you’ll probably wanna have a look at all the default links, so click on the links menu here, and click on “Edit.” So what you see here are all the default links to the WordPress development sites. I want to delete all these links, so I’m just going to check the top checkbox here, which will automatically select all the links and I’m going  select “Bulk Actions,” “Delete,” I’m going click on “Apply.”

The next thing I want to do is check out any default WordPress pages and see if I wanna use them or if I want to delete those pages. And you can see that there is a default page called “About.” 

Now, if you plan to modify this page and add some information about yourself, then you can just click on “Edit,” then edit that page. But if you do not plan to use the About page, you may just want to delete that page.

And now, your WordPress blog is completely clean, with no posts, no comment, no pages, and most importantly, no links.  And that’s how you clean up a new wordpress blog!