Title: Help: Can’t delete post’s
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help: Can’t delete post’s

 *  [ph33rgear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ph33rgear/)
 * (@ph33rgear)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/)
 * Whenever I try to delete post’s in the admin menu under Manage. I click on delete,
   and the page just reloads quickly but doesn’t delete the post.
 * Now I was also wondering if anyone could tell, me if I went into my database,
   and just erase the post’s I didn’t want manually. Would I get db error’s after
   that?

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 *  [citeewurkor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citeewurkor/)
 * (@citeewurkor)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312742)
 * You could, but it would be advisable to back up your database first.
    But it 
   seems the first problem should be addressed. Namely, “Why can’t you delete posts.”
   Using 2.0? Recently upgraded?
 *  Thread Starter [ph33rgear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ph33rgear/)
 * (@ph33rgear)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312750)
 * using 2.0 yes
    Fresh install
 * I have 4 plugins on the go sitemap,auto links, video manager, subscribe me.
 * I can’t login either, the only way i seem to be able to login is by hitting the
   edit link beside any post’s. When ever i use the admin login it just refreshes
   the screen and nothing again, but once I go back the the mainsite page it shows
   the edit links for me to get in.
 * Any ideas, would php be the prob at all?
 *  [citeewurkor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citeewurkor/)
 * (@citeewurkor)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312753)
 * can you go directly to:
    [http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/index.php](http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/index.php)
   Your admin panel? Of course, if you’re installed in a directory, you’ll have 
   to reflec the change in the URL.
 *  Thread Starter [ph33rgear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ph33rgear/)
 * (@ph33rgear)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312754)
 * no sir,
 * I get the same thing I get on the main page. But the URL is [http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/index.php](http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/index.php)
 * BTW, thanks for taking the time to help me =)
 *  [citeewurkor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citeewurkor/)
 * (@citeewurkor)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312757)
 * see if this helps:
    [http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3391](http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3391)
 *  Thread Starter [ph33rgear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ph33rgear/)
 * (@ph33rgear)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312768)
 * Well i tried changing it, and nothing at all seemed to happen, no better no worse.
 * Hmm any more idea’s? php version, old call signs, the mods? most were just drop
   in plugins and go, add a line in the head.
 * But i did notice it do it on fresh install. So server settings?
 *  Thread Starter [ph33rgear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ph33rgear/)
 * (@ph33rgear)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312771)
 * yeah I just installed it on another domain to test, and it deos that login prob
   from the start… hmm
 *  [citeewurkor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citeewurkor/)
 * (@citeewurkor)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312773)
 * Maybe there are some weird permissions going on server side.
    But I can’t make
   any recommendations there. I’m not a permissions guru. You could try to TEMPORARILY
   change the permissions on the admin folder to 777 and see what happens. DO NOT
   FORGET to change it back to default.
 * Who’s your host?
 * for some weird reason, I think I’ve heard of this problem before, but for the
   life of me, i can’t remember when or where.
 *  Thread Starter [ph33rgear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ph33rgear/)
 * (@ph33rgear)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312782)
 * my host is [http://www.oxeo.com](http://www.oxeo.com) and some of my other scripts
   were acting up, something to do with my scripts trying to use old php calls or
   something hehe, but we added something to the .htaccess files and they were ok
   maybe I should try the same.
 * I’ll let ya know in a few mins
 *  Thread Starter [ph33rgear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ph33rgear/)
 * (@ph33rgear)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312786)
 * what was added to the other two htaccess files was “php_flag register_globals
   on”. I tried it, and nothing.
 * weird, I’m gonna keep trying.
 *  Thread Starter [ph33rgear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ph33rgear/)
 * (@ph33rgear)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312844)
 * Apparently was a prob on my server it is fixed now, although it still doesnt 
   delete the post’s weird…
 * login is fixde tho
 *  [citeewurkor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/citeewurkor/)
 * (@citeewurkor)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-cant-delete-posts/#post-312880)
 * Hmm.. Well, at least you can reach the admin panel now. (sorry, had to go sleep
   for 8 hours…)
 * But you _still_ cannot delete posts.
    hmm… Hmm.. ok did a little searching.. 
   try disabling javascript and see if that helps [http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2173](http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2173)
   Just a hunch… Also, be sure that you haven’t changed your admin’s role or something.
   You can check that in your dashboard’s users page.

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