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I've got a localhost implementation of WordPress using xampplite for Windows.

I'd like to reset my site back to the way it was when I first installed wordpress (no posts, no settings, etc).

I need to do this so that I can test a base install against my wordpress theme updates.

Any help, much appreciated!

Perhaps i can just reset the options table?

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Drop all of your WP tables, IMO. If you export them first you can restore the settings. Or you can edit your WP configuration and change the table prefix.

Segfault
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The simplest way to get an installation that will be exactly like the first time you installed would be to... re-install ; from the start -- which means with an empty database.

This will make sure everything is deleted : settings, posts, ... nothing will survive, if you drop all tables from your database.

That's what I generally do, in this kind of situation (Even if it's generally not with wordpress, but with other software).


And if you really want to be 100% sure, you could also delete all the source files ; and re-download them -- to be sure there is nothing left from the previous installation.

Pascal MARTIN
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There's also a WordPress plugin for that...

The WordPress SQL Executioner @ http://justinsomnia.org/2008/02/the-wordpress-sql-executioner/

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