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Sorry, typo in the last paragraph. That should have read “…old junk out of the wp_postmeta table”.

Thanks for your comments, Thomas, about archiving and the Media Library.

I’m well aware of best practices WRT taking backups and updating software. Unfortunately those weren’t followed in the case, there was a problem, and then I was brought in. Even if those practices had been followed, we still would have had to deal with the broken Delete function at some point. I’m also well aware of database optimization methods, which is why I tried using WP-Optimize to do that — and it didn’t have any impact on the problem. And lastly, I agree with your recommendation on WP Engine. I have been using it for several years on a number of sites. Again, not sure that using them would have made any difference in this case — hosting companies don’t fix or avoid bugs in software or databases — but that’s water under the bridge.

One thing you did not address was my question about cleaning all the old junk out of the wp_posts table. But I guess we’ll deal with that if and when there are other problems down the road.

Cheers, Jon

So, I cloned a copy of the site, went into phpmyadmin, and manually deleted all the old applications in the posts table with post_title = ‘Application”. THAT DID THE TRICK! I can now submit new applications and delete them without a problem. What was happening before is that when you execute the Delete bulk action, the page would simply refresh and the list of applications displayed was unchanged. Now, after deleting all the old applications, when you select an application and perform the Delete bulk action, it now displays “Are you sure you want to delete?” type of message, which was not displaying before.

One (hopefully final) question: although this solves the immediate problem, I know it leaves a lot of unnecessay junk laying around for the deleted applications — the resumes themselves, as well as the related entires in the postmeta table. Any ideas on how to clean that junk up in an automated/semi-automated way? Also, is there junk anywhere else that requires cleanup?

A few more points…I see that the applications are stored as standard posts (interesting choice there — I would think you would create a custom post type, but it is what it is) . There are less than 1,000 posts in the database — so not really that huge — of which 350 are Applications. I tried installing and running the WP Optimize plugin, to no net effect.

Your thoughts on next steps?

btw, I tried switching to a different theme (Twenty Twelve), and that did not have any impact.

Unfortunately Nancy did not notice/follow the instructions for the upgrade and I was not involved in the process. Do you have any suggestions for what we can do now?

Incidentally, the site is running WP 4.1.

Thomas, I am a web developer helping Nancy try to sort out the problem with her site. I tried deactivating all other plugins and then deleting a resume. This had no effect — none of the resumes will delete.

I noticed that in the Resumes section of the Job Manager settings page that there is an error message: Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘jobman_print_resume_settings_box’ not found or invalid function name in /home2/baughman/public_html/wp-content/plugins/job-manager/functions.php on line 42

The code there is: call_user_func_array( $function, $params );

Could this error be related to Nancy’s problem?

@ruanna: Would appreciate if you advise what BH says. I don’t want to bug them, too, unless I have to. Thanks!

fyi, I maintain a site, also hosted at Bluehost, that had this exact same problem. The fix noted above worked perfectly. Thanks!

Waiting a month to get any response is an eternity in web development time. Because the basic functionality for plugin was broken, I had to move on. I’m not using the plugin, so sharing the url of the site would be of no use.

So, just to finish the story…you go ahead and place the order. You then look at the order, and the tax amount is till what it was before entering the ID value. The ID value appear in a custom field, but the amount charged the customer is the same as if you didn’t enter an ID.

Well, tgd, I’m just substituting new values for the code that appears in the theme itself, which are “hard-coded” as 500px. So, if there’s a better way to do this, perhaps nickeo wants to address that. I’m not aiming to be a theme developer, myself. Cheers!

Try this:

footer#footer {
background: #000000;
}

Change the “000000” (black) to whatever hex color you want. If you want to change the font color, too, that’s another story…

One additional comment about this: while this solution seems to work okay when viewing the site on a PC-sized screen. It’s not so good on smaller screens — the smaller the screen, the more white space appears between the slider and the elements above and below it.

Nikeo: can you suggest other custom CSS that would this problem? I’m stretching the limits of my CSS expertise! Thanks again for all the great support.