Comments on: Should I Be Careful When Deleting Posts and Pages?

By: ahmet maranki

ahmet maranki — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:05:45 +0000

I believe WordPress version 2.9 (full) will come with a Trash feature, as I’ve already noticed it in WordPress.com. This will help bloggers recover their posts. However, if anyone deletes posts/pages from the trash too, then there will be no way out…

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:49:24 +0000

I think sometimes deleting posts is necessary. I haven’t written too many posts but looking back I see some of my posts were nothing but crap and I just want to delete them.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:01:19 +0000

Thanks for the answer! The problem was actually that I had malware on the blog and I really had no time to learn how to remove it (maybe it was stupid of me), and I also wanted to change my writing style (but not my topic). I also moved the blog into the Root of the domain.

What I do now is I access the deleted pages (which appear in Google results) via the “in cache” option, copy the text, create a new post and then use a 301 Redirect. Because those posts are still good. I polish the text, I shorten the articles a little bit so they sound more tidy and they are in tune with my current writing style, and then visitors who click on those Google results get to the newly created post.

The blog actually ranks pretty well on local search, but then again, my topic is not very well explored here in Romania.

By: ShueQry

ShueQry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:53:42 +0000

I learned something from here – keep updating blog posts with fresh content! Thanks Daniel..i’ve made same mistake too during last year..actually I dont know keep adding new content will solve the 404 error page problem.

By: John Samuel

John Samuel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:10:44 +0000

I prefer not to delete any post. Yes your suggestion of starting a new blog is a good one