Since all your content is stored in the database… probably a DB backup would save them to have it on your computer.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
As for “cleaning” the posts? I don’t know, you’ll have to empty several tables in your DB.
Just out of curiousity: why would you want that?
I only want my archives to go back one year but start fresh each year. I did a DB backup but it ends up as an odd file type. I want to be able to save my posts in a way that could be copied into word or something later.
My main question is is there a simple way to delete all previous posts that so that nothing is left to show in archives or previous posts, even though I’ve got hundreds of posts?
thanks
mike
There is never a “simple” way… only in the movies 🙂
The “odd file type” is what it should be. Probably a .sql file. People can use it to restore their DB (and blog) if something goes wrong with the server.
NO, there is no Word-like BS. Do it manually, if that’s what you want.
Backup what you have and delete the whole thing. Re-install. It will be brand new 🙂
Nice. I never noticed that plugin…
Awesome! Well, once I do the backup to the .sql file how do you ever “recover it” in readable format?
Could I install wordpress in a backup directory to copy and paste onto word later?
M
