Ah yes, the desire for a clean reboot of your wordpress blog, or a simple deletion of your wordpress blog, without the fuss and muss of myPHPAdmin toolings, droppings of tables and the like.

Well, it can all be done with a simple plugin that I discovered yesterday, as I needed to obliterate the (probable) cause of this site’s PR0 — duplicate content at my old blog, as, of course, I am still dwelling in pagerank purgatory.

That’s right — I wanted to delete my old blog’s CONTENT, but, leave the blog framework of wordpress in place; installing it with all of the config stuff and databases isn’t difficult per se. But, with the birth of Chief Admiral McPoopy AKA Sir Burp-a-lot, time is at a premium.

At any rate, I can heartily recommend Justin’s Wordpress Suicide.

After installing the plugin, you are given a few choices as to which tables you would like to keep, and which ones need to go the way of a clean sterilization. I chose, what I call “the Defcon-4 option” (all of the options), and *poof* … all taken care of.

Why would you need this? Well, if, I suppose, you were in the process of importing a whole bunch of things on your blog, or making huge site-wide database changes, and things went awfully wrong. I am, of course, presupposing that you backed up your blog as well.

With the plugin its easy to just restart over again.

Anyway, a hearty two thumbs up for this plugin, my plugin of the day.

(btw: here is my old blog, sterilized and ready for use!)