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A lightweight WordPress administration utility for safely resetting selected site content without reinstalling WordPress.

Warning: This is a destructive tool. It is intended primarily for development, staging, testing, and rebuild environments. Always maintain and verify a working backup before use.

What's new in 1.1.0

• Visible WordPress environment indicator
• Stronger warning when a production environment is detected
• Required verified-backup acknowledgement
• Reset button stays disabled until the safety acknowledgement and exact confirmation are supplied
• Server-side validation of the safety acknowledgement
• Protection for WordPress system post types such as block templates, template parts and global styles
• Refined responsive admin interface

Features

• Content Only reset mode
• Content + Media reset mode
• Standard posts and pages cleanup
• Custom post type cleanup, including previously registered custom post types
• Comment cleanup
• Taxonomy cleanup
• Navigation menu cleanup
• Orphaned metadata and relationship cleanup
• Administrator-only access
• WordPress nonce protection
• Explicit DELETE CONTENT confirmation
• No external services, tracking, analytics, advertising, telemetry, or license server

Reset modes

Content Only

Removes selected content while preserving Media Library items and their uploaded files.

Content + Media

Removes the same content and additionally permanently deletes Media Library attachments and their uploaded files.

Protected system data

The broad content reset does not intentionally delete WordPress system objects such as:

• WordPress core files
• User accounts
• Installed plugins
• Installed themes
• wp-config.php
• Block theme templates and template parts
• Global styles
• Customizer changesets
• Other protected WordPress system post types

Revisions are removed as part of deleting their parent content where WordPress handles them as associated data.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.0+
• PHP 7.4+
• Administrator-level access

Installation

1. Download the plugin ZIP from the GitHub release.
2. In WordPress, open Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.
3. Upload the ZIP.
4. Activate Content Reset Tool.
5. Open Tools → Content Reset.

Safety

Before using the tool:

1. Confirm that you are on the intended website.
2. Take a complete database and file backup.
3. Verify that the backup can be restored.
4. Review the selected reset mode.
5. Acknowledge the verified backup requirement.
6. Type DELETE CONTENT.
7. Confirm the final browser warning.

There is no undo function.

Recommended use

Content Reset Tool is best suited to:

• Development sites
• Staging environments
• QA/testing installations
• Theme development
• Plugin development
• Website rebuilds

Production use is discouraged. If you intentionally use it on production, understand that the selected data is permanently deleted.

Privacy

The plugin does not send site content or usage information to external services and does not include analytics, advertising, telemetry, or remote licensing.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later. See LICENSE.txt.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.