How to delete a post on your site with WordPress

Different times need arises for us to do away with maybe a post or many posts on our site. If yours is a WordPress site and you’re wondering how to do that, you’re lucky to be reading this article. This piece of writing will tell you How to delete a post on your site with WordPress.

At the end of this article, you should have very reasonable knowledge about deleting a post on WordPress. You should be able delete one yourself and repeat the process whenever it’s necessary.

Why delete a post on your site?

While there are a thousand reasons why a post could be deleted, let’s look at something like this; A content creator made a post which he failed to edit properly, instead of editing such post on WordPress so people will still be viewing the already published one, he decides to delete it, then open his MS Word or Color Note to edit before uploading it again.

Just like earlier said, there are thousands of reasons for deleting a post. Just know how to do it for whatever reason you have in mind.

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WordPress is a content management system used by many websites around the word. Many websites use WordPress to manage the content on their websites, this includes making posts (writing articles) on their sites, editing the already written posts, deleting a post from your site or bringing it back. The use of WordPress have only increased since it’s release in May, 2003.

WordPress offers different themes for websites of different kinds, these helps in giving your site a remarkable look which can be considered to be more professional. Plugins are also made available to make the creation of content possible and admirable.

How to delete a post on your site with WordPress

To delete a post on your site is actually very simple and anyone can do it, even an 70 year old.

While already logged in as an admin on your preferred site. You should click on the menu button. It’s usually by the top left corner of your screen, regardless of the device you’re using.

In the next pop up, click on posts, then all posts.

You should scroll down to locate the article you want to delete. On each article, there’s an option to edit, trash it or delete it.

Click on the delete option and there you go. It’s done, the article is deleted and can’t be viewed by your audience.

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