Hi, As the title says I want to how to delete all posts under a selected category in Wordpress? Don't say manually because it has well over 1000 posts. Please help!! Thanks in advance.
Go into "posts" and chose "categories". Find the category you want to delete, check it and in the drop down menu chose delete and "apply". Should delete the whole category.
I'm not 100% sure, but the way you just described will just move all the posts of this category to "uncategorized". cool_dude, I'd try deleting them in phpmyadmin. I don't know what query string to use, but Google and you shall find. Backup your database first!
If using WP version 2.7: Go to Posts, Edit and filter the posts by the category. Select them all by ticking the check box on the top left, choose Delete with the Bulk Actions drop-down box and then the Apply button. If the post is in two different categories you will probably still delete it.
Not sure but i have read it somewhere that if you want to delete all posts under specific category then you can do it through MYSql query. Don't forget to take a backup before doing this for your own safety. And btw wait till any other experts advice on this as i am not expert DON.