trashed an image

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  penwaunhr · Member · May 17, 2014 at 8:40 am

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  My wordpress blog is greyed out and the error is as follows;

  “You can’t edit this item because it is in the Trash. Please restore it and try again.”

  However I cannot get rid of this page, no matter what.

  This came about because I tried upload an image of my PDF cover page. This unfortunately is difficult so I tried to trash what was there.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 17, 2014 at 3:59 pm

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  It seems that you may have not permanently deleted it as yet http://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#permanently-deleting-an-upload

  If that doesn’t work for you then please provide the URL.

  Note: To keep things running quickly around here, files are held in multiple caches through a separate system. These caches are usually cleared within 3 days. Deleting blogs and/or blog content does not remove any indexed items from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.
  If you have deleted a web page or an image and it has been removed from the server and, the URL returns a 404 page not found error, then you can request Google to remove the page from their indexed cache. Remember the URL of the page to be removed must return a 404 error otherwise this tool will not work.
  See > Remove a page or site from Google’s search results
  http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734

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  penwaunhr · Member · May 18, 2014 at 2:13 pm

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  Timethief

  Thank you for your reply, however, I cannot access anything to restore.

  http://wilborrayedblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2&action=edit

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  timethief · Member · May 18, 2014 at 2:57 pm

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  @penwaunhr
  I’ll tag this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  penwaunhr · Member · May 20, 2014 at 5:54 am

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  Many thanks

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  druesome · Staff · May 20, 2014 at 5:36 pm

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  Hi there,

  I was able to restore the deleted post by going into your Trash and clicked on “Restore” below the Post Title.

  Delete a Page or Post

  You may now edit the post here:

  https://wilborrayedblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2&action=edit

  Please bear in mind that the PDF file you uploaded may not be displayed as a regular image. You will have to extract the cover photo using an image editing software such as Photoshop and save it as a JPEG file.

  Let me know if you had other questions. Thanks!