starting a theme with a clean slate

It could be that a plugin is responsible for creating the child pages (ex. ecommerce plugin would have a store, checkout, products). Once you disable the plugin, the pages will be removed.

Also check to see if your Menu that is being displayed is the default menu or if you created your own. If you created your own, you will have to go back and remove the pages from the menu. That will have the pages disappear from the menu.

Please do not create duplicate threads – continue in your first thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/want-to-change-theme-back-to-default-settings?replies=3

@kdupont – sorry to close this – it just doesn’t work to have duplicate threads on the same question – you can add your reply to the other thread if you like.