Title: Cannot delete slides
Last modified: August 25, 2019

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# Cannot delete slides

 *  Resolved [David Burkhart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlburkhart/)
 * (@dlburkhart)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-slides-2/)
 * I cannot seem to ever delete any slides. I did not see this issue reported by
   anyone else. But, just in case, if anyone knows anything about such a problem,
   please respond.
 * Everything else with this plugin appears to work wonderfully. But, whenever I
   try to delete a slide, I just see a spinning wheel for about 45 seconds. Then,
   it returns to normal – no message and no change.
 * This plugin would delete slides when I first began to use it. But, it stopped
   deleting after two days. I tried deactivating all other plugins and deleting/
   reinstalling this plugin. Nothing helps. As a workaround, I’m able to change 
   the unwanted slides to use different images and/or “unpublish” them to no longer
   appear in the slideshow. But, deleting and adding is much easier.

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 *  Thread Starter [David Burkhart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlburkhart/)
 * (@dlburkhart)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-slides-2/#post-11865879)
 * After more testing, it appears that I also cannot delete any sliders.
 *  Plugin Support [Gabor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextendweb_gabor/)
 * (@nextendweb_gabor)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-slides-2/#post-11866336)
 * Hi [@dlburkhart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlburkhart/)!
 * I haven’t heard of this issue before, but if you have turned off all other plugins,
   there could be two problems related to this. The first one is, that an error 
   could come from the theme too and the second one is, that there might be a server
   misconfiguration or limitation happening. Can you delete other datas on your 
   website, like delete a WordPress post? If you used the same theme before the 
   error started to happen, I think the problem rather will be a server caused problem,
   that your server host changed something, which often happens without users knowing
   about it.
 * Please rather write to us in here, because probably we will need to do some deeper
   debugging:
    [https://smartslider3.com/contact-us/support/?topic=Other&platform=WordPress&version=Free&website=website-yes&send-screenshot=sreenshot-no&slider-export=slider-no](https://smartslider3.com/contact-us/support/?topic=Other&platform=WordPress&version=Free&website=website-yes&send-screenshot=sreenshot-no&slider-export=slider-no)
 *  Thread Starter [David Burkhart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlburkhart/)
 * (@dlburkhart)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-slides-2/#post-11873118)
 * The website owner noticed a security warning about PHP being out-of-date. We 
   are working to resolve this first. Then, I will check if it was causing the problem
   with your plugin. I will update this support thread with my findings.
 * Would you happen to know the earliest version of PHP your plugin is known to 
   work with?
 *  [Ramona](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextend_ramona/)
 * (@nextend_ramona)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-slides-2/#post-11875274)
 * Hi [@dlburkhart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlburkhart/)
 * Smart Slider 3 requires PHP 5.6.20 or greater from 3.3.22: [https://smartslider3.helpscoutdocs.com/article/53-system-requirements-php-sql-etc](https://smartslider3.helpscoutdocs.com/article/53-system-requirements-php-sql-etc)
 * The current release should work fine on 5.4, but I’d rather suggest setting the
   PHP on your server to a minimum of 5.6.20 or even PHP 7 to make it future-proof.
 *  Thread Starter [David Burkhart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlburkhart/)
 * (@dlburkhart)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-slides-2/#post-11877646)
 * The PHP version is currently 5.6.34. But, given the security vulnerability, I’m
   upgrading it to version 7. I hope that doesn’t open a big, ugly can of worms.

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [David Burkhart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlburkhart/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-slides-2/#post-11877646)
 * Status: resolved