Zombie Page (simply won’t die – please help)

  • I am able to add, edit and delete pages in my installation of wordpress (www.kaushik.net/avinash). Except one page, that simply won’t die.

    In Manage Pages I select delete and get the proper pop-up that says “are you sure?”:

    https://www.kaushik.net/avinash/page-trying_to_delete.png

    I say yes but nothing happens. I see this:

    https://www.kaushik.net/avinash/page-trying_to_delete2.png

    Notice at the bottom it says processing, but nothing happens.

    When I go back to Manage Pages it is always there but on the site I get “sorry no posts match”.

    Here is the line in my theme sidebar.php file that is pulling the list of pages and presenting it on my blog:

    <?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’); ?>

    I have read many posts here and tried ’em all but simply can’t seem to get rid of this page. One of the posts recommended that I edit my mysql database.

    I am a huge novice I found it on my server and somehow found a row in wp_posts that refers to this zombie page, id # 39 in this image:

    https://www.kaushik.net/avinash/page-php_my_admin.png

    and I hit the little red x icon, it says “do you want to delete” and I say yes and nothing happens.

    Any ideas how I can kill this zombie page and get on with my life? Thanks so much in advance.

    PS: I have tried to switch off all the plugins, no dice. I have switched back to the original wordpress theme, nothing. I have also tried this in IE and firefox, nada. Just to repeat, I am able to add and delete new / other pages.

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  • I can’t see your images due to a firewall issue, but the way I would fix this would be to carve the page out of the Database.

    If you have access to your MySQL database (MyPhpAdmin?), you can get into the table structure and remove the offending page. I wish I could find an easy writeup of this for you, but I can’t even see my DB at the moment due to firewall issues…

    I’ve seen this one. I don’t remember how I fixed it. I vaguely remember that it was a post/page status setting or maybe a date in the future.

    I won’t delete things in the DB with phpadmin unless I really know what I’m doing and I make a backup first.

    Ps, If you’re using Safari, it has some odd caching behavour when it comes to the admin panels. If you are, login with firefox and see if the zombie is still there.

    Now that I’m at home, I can see the graphics and such. I’ve also visited said page.

    It’s listed as a static page in your DB and when someone goes to it, it’s technically giving a 404 but redirecting to your home page.

    I’ve never had this type of problem with static pages. From what I’m reading, you need to unpublish the page (change status to draft), save then remove.

    Thread Starter A K

    (@akaushik)

    I am sorry but I am unaware of how to unpublish the page (change it to draft). I can do that for pages. Thanks.

    Login to your wp-admin section, click Manage, click Pages in the sub-menu.

    Edit the offending page. On the right side, there is a menu for Page Status. Expand that, change it to draft and save the Page.

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