Broken blog post cannot be deleted - $helper.page.title
Asked by Markus Raab:

Hi,

unfortunately something went wrong today, and I have no idea how to fix it.

I have a blog post without content and the automatic title "$helper.page.title".

I cannot delete it, I cannot hide it, I can move it but it does not change anything (it still appears in the original space), I can change the permissions but still everyone is able to see this blog post.

Any idea how to get rid of it?

Confluence Server 6.2.4

Best

Markus

![error1.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3302iFB6569324B540488/image-dimensions/240x171?v=v2 "error1.png")

![error2.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3303i8B737BD3A165DCCF/image-dimensions/281x189?v=v2 "error2.png")


Answers:
author: Rilwan Ahmed
body: I too faced this issue in one of the page. This actually stopped the child pages being displayed in the Page tree. I had to move the issue page to some test space so that child pages were displayed in page tree.

As the issue page did not have any info/data, I just kept it like that.


author: Markus Raab
body: Rebuilding the content index did the trick - without actually rebooting the Confluence service.

Confuence Administrator -\> Administration -\> Content Indexing -\> Rebuild.

comments: author: AnnWorley
body: Relieved to hear it! Thanks for following up so if someone else runs into that issue they can reindex based on your experience.


author: AnnWorley
body: We may end up digging in your database but let's try some cleverer strategies first.

See if it will let you get the page ID:

1. Go to **...** menu from the blog page
2. Choose Page information
3. Page ID will be in URL like: <http://confluence.example.com/pages/viewinfo.action>?**pageId=65576**

Use the page ID in the options from [Editing or Deleting a Page That Won't Render](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/editing-or-deleting-a-page-that-won-t-render-167608440.html).

See if you can add a title and then delete it, since the error message says it needs a title in the screen shot.

It may also help to reindex - it is suspicious that the post still appears in the space from which it was moved. Please try reindexing from this guide: [Content Index Administration](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Content+Index+Administration), and if you can afford a restart, rebuilding the content indexes from scratch as described in [How to Rebuild the Content Indexes From Scratch on Confluence Server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Rebuild+the+Content+Indexes+From+Scratch+on+Confluence+Server).

comments: author: Markus Raab
body: Hi Ann,

I can see the pageId but the first suggestion (first link / editing and deleting page that won't render) did not work.

The latter I could not try at the moment but will consider later and report back.

Side-note:

I realized that I can find the blog post ONLY by listening it via a blog report macro. If I just look through the Blog area of a space I cannot see it at all. Could it be that I need to delete the cache of the add-ons somehow?


author: AnnWorley
body: If you are restarting Confluence to index from scratch you may as well [clear the plugin cache](https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-clear-confluence-plugins-cache-297664846.html) at the same time. Indexing can also impact the results of macros like the recently updated or activity macros so I hope you can reindex soon.


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