Title: Cannot delete a wrong element from page
Last modified: June 2, 2026

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# Cannot delete a wrong element from page

 *  [serjves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serjves/)
 * (@serjves)
 * [1 day, 4 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-a-wrong-element-from-page/)
 * 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?
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/i.postimg.cc/Dw5gK1qF/Screenshot-2026-06-02-101859.png?
   ssl=1)
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 *  [James Kiarie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesgreat/)
 * (@jamesgreat)
 * [1 day, 2 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-a-wrong-element-from-page/#post-18926153)
 * Hi [@serjves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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 1 day, 2 hours ago by [James Kiarie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesgreat/).
 *  Thread Starter [serjves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serjves/)
 * (@serjves)
 * [18 hours, 18 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-a-wrong-element-from-page/#post-18926731)
 * Hi [@jamesgreat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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/](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesgreat/)
 * (@jamesgreat)
 * [16 hours, 41 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-a-wrong-element-from-page/#post-18926804)
 * Hi [@serjves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/serjves/)
 * (@serjves)
 * [1 hour, 5 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-a-wrong-element-from-page/#post-18927416)
 * Hi [@jamesgreat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesgreat/)
 * (@jamesgreat)
 * [52 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-delete-a-wrong-element-from-page/#post-18927436)
 * Hi again [@serjves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/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

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