Stop WP from creating “Sample Page” and “Hello World!” post

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1. If you’re using Multisite

   The accepted answer is destructive in that it cancels all other set-up items in the overridden function. A less destructive way to do it for multisite installs is to delete the default content during new blog creation by hooking in to wpmu_new_blog

   add_action( 'wpmu_new_blog', 'delete_wordpress_defaults', 100, 1 );
   
   function delete_wordpress_defaults(){
   
       // 'Hello World!' post
       wp_delete_post( 1, true );
   
       // 'Sample page' page
       wp_delete_post( 2, true );
   }
   

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2. Create a file install.php in your wp-content directory. In that file you declare the wp_install_defaults() function. If you just leave that function empty no default categories, links, posts or pages will be created.

   The default (pluggable) wp_install_defaults() function can be found in wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php.

   Also see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/550086/how-to-delete-the-default-hello-world-post-before-wordpress-install

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