Deleted post still showing up

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  barbarah · Member · Nov 26, 2009 at 4:21 am

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  I’ve searched for this topic but cannot find an answer.

  I had a post with a quote from Lincoln which a reader informed me was a misquote. After checking around I discovered he was right, so I tried to delete the post. First I changed the status of it to “Draft” and then “Pending Review,” but each time a link to it still showed up in my “Top Posts” widget, which led to the post. Then I clicked to send it to the trash, but it still shows up. How do I remove it completely?

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 26, 2009 at 4:37 am

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  Could you give us the URL of the post? It’s possible this is a caching issue on your end, so log out, clear your browser cache and cookies and restart the computer.

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  barbarah · Member · Nov 26, 2009 at 10:25 pm

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  Thanks — I tried that suggestion but it is still showing up:

  http://barbarah.wordpress.com/2006/11/16/abraham-lincolns-thanksgiving-proclamation/

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 26, 2009 at 10:29 pm

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  I wouldn’t worry. When I click on that I get an error message:

  Sorry, the page you are looking for does not exist

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  timethief · Member · Nov 26, 2009 at 11:03 pm

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  @barbarah
  As the post has been deleted and the url now produces a 404 (page not found) you may want to use the Google url removal tool to have the data that has been indexed removed from Google’s cache. If so, then this post provides the instructions for doing that
  http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/how-to-remove-data-from-googles-cache/

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  barbarah · Member · Nov 27, 2009 at 3:35 am

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  Thanks to both of you!

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  timethief · Member · Nov 27, 2009 at 6:23 am

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  You’re welcome from me. :)