If your group is no longer needed, has completed its task, or you have lost interest in this topic, the question may arise of how to delete a VKontakte group. This is not difficult to do, but unlike deleting a personal page, deleting a community is a labor-intensive operation.
Methods for deleting a VKontakte group by the creator
Technically, VKontakte users cannot delete communities. Therefore, even if you are the creator of a group, you can destroy your brainchild in only two ways:
- Write a letter to support service social network with a request to delete the community.
- Delete all information and users, and then leave the group yourself.
In the second case, the procedure is as follows:
After completing these steps, an empty community will remain inaccessible to anyone, which will be deleted after some time by VKontakte technical support.
If there are a lot of materials in a group, deleting them can take a lot of time. There is a way to perform this operation with one script. To do this, open the group in the browser, click on it right button mouse and select "Inspect Element" in FireFox or "View Code" in Chrome. Next, go to the console and paste the following code:
if (!confirm("Delete all posts?")) return;
var deletePostLink = document.body.querySelectorAll("a.ui_actions_menu_item");
for (var i = 0; i< deletePostLink.length; i++) {
deletePostLink[i].click();
alert(deletePostLink.length + " posts deleted");
When you try to paste, the browser will display a warning and ask you to enter a phrase, such as “allow pasting,” as confirmation. After inserting the script, press Enter, the “Delete all messages?” window will appear, confirm again. 
This is a convenient way to delete posts in bulk, but if there are a lot of them, you may need to run this script several times. There is also a possibility of temporary blocking in VK for such activity, then you will have to wait a couple of hours and then continue deleting.
Instructions for deleting a VKontakte public by the creator
If you need to get rid of a public page, you must first transfer it to a group. Go to the community management menu and click on the “Transfer to group” item. 
In the next warning window, click “Transfer to group” again. 
You may need to confirm with a code from SMS. After the community type is changed, further actions are the same as deleting a VKontakte group.
Is it possible to restore a group to the creator after deletion?
After deleting the VKontakte group, according to the instructions above, the creator is no longer a member of the community and is not the group administrator. However, the group itself still exists, although it is not listed, it can be opened by URL.
Until VKontakte technical support deletes the unused community, the group creator can still manage it. To restore access to a deleted group, you just need to re-join it. But deletion of materials and community members is irreversible. Therefore, think carefully before deleting a group or public.
By analogy with its Western “big brother” Facebook social In early January, the VKontakte network gave its users the opportunity to create public pages. This newly emerged advantage was immediately taken advantage of by everyone who wanted and wants to promote a brand, website, or even a specific person.
Before the creation of public pages, the only possible option for PR on VKontakte was groups. However, statistics show that only socially oriented groups are successful, while commercial ones are practically doomed to failure. Well, the personal page does not include all the necessary functionality for communicating with the audience.
Public page of director Nikita Mikhalkov
You can create a public page this way.
- Go to your profile in the “My Groups” tab and click “Create a community”. You will be given the opportunity to create a public page - "the ideal community for sharing news and information."
- Next, you will need to select one of the headings: “Place or small company”, “Company, organization or website”, “Work, product or product”, “Famous person or group”. You can also create a “Contacts” section.
- Think carefully about the name of your public page, because you can change it only within a couple of days after creation - then it will remain unchanged.
- The next step is settings. A window will appear in front of you in which you can specify the address of your company’s website, give a description of the public, assign administrators, and edit the menu. Customizable options: contact information, events, links, discussions, photo albums, video, audio.
- In the contact information you can indicate a link to your VKontakte profile, phone number, position. News can be published in microblog format (this is available only to the public administrator).
- Now get ready to receive subscribers.
How to delete a VKontakte public page
If you see that a public page is ineffective, or want to replace it with a new one, you need to do the opposite of what you did when creating it.
- First, remove followers from your page.
- Now go to the management section, remove the contact information. Unsubscribe from news.
- And most importantly, you need to remove all administrators from the list (if there are several of them), and the last to remove the main administrator is yourself. The problem of how to delete a VKontakte public page has been resolved.
Under some circumstances, you, as the owner of a public page, may need to delete it. In this article, we will reveal all the nuances regarding the deactivation of a public page on the VKontakte social network.
Today, the VK website does not provide users with a direct opportunity to delete either public pages or groups. However, this can still be done by reducing any activity to a minimum.
Transfer to group
Due to the fact that the public page will in any case be available to users of the resource, it is best to first transform it into a group. Thanks to this approach, which we described in detail in the corresponding article on the site, you will be able to delete the public, hiding it from all users.
Cleaning up the public
As was said earlier, you cannot directly get rid of the public; there is no such option on the site. In this case, deletion can be performed by clearing the public of all data ever added, including subscribers and wall posts.
- Open section "Community Management" through the main menu of the public page.
- Open the page through the navigation menu "Participants" and next to each user click on the link "Remove from community".
- If the user has special permissions, you will need to use the link first "Demote".
- Now open the tab "Settings" and change the information in all presented blocks. This especially applies to the page address and title.
- On the tab "Sections" uncheck all the boxes and delete the values in the fields "Main block" And "Minor block".
- In chapter "Comments" uncheck "Comments included".
- On the page "Links" get rid of all the URLs you once added.
- If you have used third party applications, on the tab "Working with API" On the page "Access keys" delete all submitted data.
- In chapter "Messages" change the value of the item "Community Posts" on "Off".
- On last tab "Applications" you need to get rid of all added modules. To do this, click on the link "Change" next to the application and select the link "Delete application".
- Use one of the instructions on our website to clean the wall without any hassle. If you have any difficulties with this, please contact us in the comments.
- Be sure to delete the post pinned to the public header and clear the status bar located under the page name.
- Via the menu "Actions" unsubscribe from notifications and broadcasts.
- On the right top corner Click on the button above the community image "Delete photo" and confirm the action.
- Unfollow a public page by clicking the button "You are subscribed" and selecting the appropriate menu section.
- After the actions taken, the public will automatically disappear from the page "Control" In chapter "Groups".
- The public page itself will be inactive for some time, after which it will be automatically deleted due to abandonment. Until this moment comes, you can regain control of the public.
- While on a public page, click the gear button in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Here you need to configure each section of the public page.
- The most important are the pages "Leaders" And "Participants", where you need to demote and delete all existing subscribers.
- To minimize the time spent deleting data from a group, be it discussions with comments or videos, on the page "Services" uncheck all the boxes provided. To save settings, use the check mark icon.
- Get rid of the avatar and cover image on a public page from mobile application impossible.
- You will have to completely clear the wall of notes yourself, since the official application does not provide tools to automate the process.
- However, as an alternative, you can always use the Kate Mobile app, where home page public you need to click on the block "Wall".
- On the page that opens, expand the menu «…»
and select "Clear the wall", confirming the action through the appropriate notification.
Note: A limited number of records can be deleted, as a result of which the cleaning will have to be repeated several times.
- After completing the described steps, on the main page of the public, click on the button "You are subscribed" and select "Unsubscribe".
The next required action is to clear the main page.
Please note that if people join the public of their own free will, despite the lack of material, the activity will be counted. It is because of this that it is best to resort to the first method, initially transferring the public to a group.
Mobile app
In the case of a mobile application, you will need to perform the same steps that we described in the previous section of the article. The only, but not particularly significant, difference here is the different location and name of the sections.
Transfer to group
Unlike full version VKontakte website, the mobile application does not provide the ability to change the type of community. Based on this, if necessary, you will have to contact the website and follow the appropriate instructions to complete the removal.
Cleaning up the public
If for one reason or another you cannot transfer the public to the status "Group", you can resort to changing the data. However, as before, with this approach the guarantee automatic deletion is greatly reduced.
After completing all the steps from the instructions we have provided, after some time, the community will be automatically blocked. Of course, only in the absence of any activity.
At a minimum, through them you can create new pages and monetize them profitably. We described how to do this in the article “”, but sometimes users want to abandon the created page.
How to delete a VKontakte public page? Before you do this, you should seriously think about it, since returning a public page will not work.
If she has a lot of subscribers, you can even try to sell the site. Have you firmly decided that you need to get rid of the page? Then our instructions will be useful to you.
Deleting a VK public
We'll have to first manually remove all participants, and then transfer the page to a group to make it private.
This is done like this:
Previously, you could simply remove yourself from the list of administrators and after that, the public would be deleted, but now this function does not work, the creator cannot be removed from the list of administrators of a public page.
As you understand, it is not necessary to delete something from the public, just clearing the list of subscribers is enough.
Unfortunately, there is no convenient tool for deleting all subscribers at once, so you will have to do this one by one on the “Participants” page, it is located in the “ section Page management».
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How to delete a public VKontakte page? The fact is that there is no such function in the community settings, and many users are perplexed when faced with a similar question. In fact, deleting a page is not at all difficult, the main thing is to know how. We will talk about this in this article.
How to delete a public VKontakte page?
- remove manual;
- clear the list of participants;
- get rid of all content that is present in the public;
- eliminate all posts on the wall, documents, comments;
- make the settings.
Let's take a closer look at each of these points.
Clearing the user list
Let's start with the managers (administrators) of the public page, if, of course, you have them. Please note that only public owners, that is, the people who created it, can perform the above actions. So, we need to go to the "Manage Page" section and then go to the "Members" tab. In it we will see two categories of users: managers and subscribers. We go to the first one and click the “Demote the manager” button. It is located opposite each user image. We repeat these steps until all managers are demoted. After that, move to the “Participants” tab and remove all subscribers from the community. You will have to spend a lot of time, especially when your page has accumulated quite a lot of fans. We recommend that you think carefully about whether you are really ready to delete them all and abandon this public, since all actions are irreversible.
How to delete a public VKontakte page? Step 2.
Now you need to get rid of all the content that the public page contains. It can be:
- photographs (albums);
- audio recordings;
- documentation;
- Topics.
This is quite easy to do. However, be prepared that this stage may take a lot of time. Try to completely delete all data.
Deleting wall posts
To delete a public VKontakte page, you must definitely get rid of all the posts that are located on the wall. You will not be able to delete all entries at the same time, since this is not provided for by the site. Each post will have to be deleted manually.
Page settings
At the end of the article on how to delete a public VKontakte page, we will tell you how to change the page parameters. Despite the fact that there are no users or any content in the public, this must be done. Go to the “Page Management” section and delete all information. Namely: name, address, date of formation. Uncheck all the boxes. Finally, go to the “Links” tab and erase all the addresses of sites and other groups that are located in it. This is how a public VKontakte page can be deleted. We remind you once again that it will be impossible to undo all the actions taken, and before deciding to take such a step, think several times.