Cannot delete a wrong element from page

  • serjves

    (@serjves)


    4 days ago

    Hi, I am running a scientific journal in WP. Internet disconnected when I was creating a page. Now I cannot delete this element (screenshot). Everything else seems to work fine, new articles can be added. I tried cleaning the WP cache. Can someone please suggest what else can be done to eliminate the “empty” item?

    • This topic was modified 3 days, 23 hours ago by serjves.

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  • James Kiarie

    (@jamesgreat)

    3 days, 21 hours ago

    Hi @serjves , I understand how frustrating this must be. Could you please clarify what element you are trying to remove?

    Are you referring to the list item that looks like this: (•) or the title of the page?

    If it is the list item, try this:

    • Click at the end of the bullet (•) and press Enter
    • → WordPress should create a new list item below it. Type anything in the new bullet (even a single letter)
    • Now move back to the first empty bullet
    • Press Backspace

    That should delete the previous item, so now you can start afresh.

    Cheers,

    Jim

    • This reply was modified 3 days, 21 hours ago by James Kiarie.
    Thread Starter serjves

    (@serjves)

    3 days, 13 hours ago

    Hi @jamesgreat,

    You are right, I am speaking about this bullet. However, this is not what I can see and access in the editor. This is the non-editable html page as it appears for any reader. In fact, the bullet is apparently generated, and in a published articles it appears in the like with the authors (please see the page https://ijcsi.pro/archive/2026-vol-15-issue-2/). So, I cannot just press Enter. This seems to be a “blank” item which was created but not populated due to the internet failure, and now it cannot be deleted.

    James Kiarie

    (@jamesgreat)

    3 days, 12 hours ago

    Hi @serjves, thank you for your reply. Have you considered creating a new page and copying over the content you previously entered?

    Cheers,

    Jim

    Thread Starter serjves

    (@serjves)

    2 days, 20 hours ago

    Hi @jamesgreat,
    Thank you for the suggestion. Perhaps it is possible, but I don’t know how the system will behave if I remove the entire journal issue containing over 20 articles by now. Then I’ll have to enter all the info all over again (more than 20 articles with authors, page numbers, etc.). It would take a long time. I don’t know if I can do it in some simple manner. I believe that I already encountered this issue before and then a similar “bullet” just disappeared after some time. Hopefully, it will happen again.

    James Kiarie

    (@jamesgreat)

    2 days, 20 hours ago

    Hi again @serjves , oh I see. From what I have seen, the theme you’re using is pretty old. It was last updated in 2012. So it’s quite hard to pinpoint what issue could’ve caused this. Normally an update to the latest version(which isn’t available) would fix such issues.

    For now I’ll just advise you just keep the articles and do not start from scratch because of the hassle until we get a permanent solution.

    Cheers,

    Jim

    Thread Starter serjves

    (@serjves)

    2 days ago

    Hi @jamesgreat,

    Thank you. Probably it is some database issue, an orphaned record or some such.

    All the best,

    Sergey

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