Title: Cannot Edit or Delete a Post
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Cannot Edit or Delete a Post

 *  [phoenixrealm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixrealm/)
 * (@phoenixrealm)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-or-delete-a-post/)
 * I am having extreme difficulty, for some reason today I cannot write a new post,
   edit a post or delete a post.
 * I am currently using 2.1.3 but I have tried deleting that and installing 2.0 
   to no avail.
 * I have deleted the database and restored from a 2 month old backup, to no avail.
 * Swapped themes to classic, deactivated and deleted all plugins, rebooted many
   times, tried in IE as well as FF, all to no avail.
 * I can write or edit a post so long as I do not enter any html in code view and
   if I do not make text bold etc in the visual view. So basically I cannot enter
   anything other than plain text.
 * If I try and enter html or bold text then when I click save or publish I am immediately
   taken to the home page, and the post is not saved.
 * Also, if I try to delete a post, it correctly comes up with the warning dialogue
   box, but when I click OK, again I am taken directly to the home page and the 
   post is not deleted.
 * I am at my witts end. Any help would be much appreciated.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [phoenixrealm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phoenixrealm/)
 * (@phoenixrealm)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-or-delete-a-post/#post-551374)
 * Just to let you know, my hosts eventually sorted this out. Seems there may have
   been a change serverside.
 *  [Tim Hyde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livingos/)
 * (@livingos)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-or-delete-a-post/#post-551559)
 * I have got this. What fixed it?
 * I have two blogs on same host and something changed in the last week to create
   the same problem.

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 * Last reply from: [Tim Hyde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/livingos/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-or-delete-a-post/#post-551559)
 * Status: not resolved

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