# Cannot delete banner post
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 12, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004 "2015-07-12T22:15:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Ricardo\_Viteri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ricardo_Viteri)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/1 "2015-07-12T22:15:00Z")
After removing the banner it still shows to both public and logged in users.
Please advise
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### Author:  [@AmiAthena](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AmiAthena)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/2 "2015-07-12T22:18:40Z")
Did you make it not a banner anymore (un-pin topic) before you deleted it?
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### Author:  [@Ricardo\_Viteri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ricardo_Viteri)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/3 "2015-07-12T22:20:19Z")
I did change it to not a banner
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### Author:  [@AmiAthena](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AmiAthena)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/4 "2015-07-13T00:42:16Z")
How long did you wait between un-pinning the topic and deleting it? Perhaps there was a caching issue and the un-pinning can’t properly take effect because the topic doesn’t exist, so it can’t perform actions on it?
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### Author:  [@Ricardo\_Viteri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ricardo_Viteri)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/5 "2015-07-13T04:05:39Z")
I don’t understand why this would not work immediately. Isn’t Discourse java based?
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/6 "2015-07-13T04:14:49Z")
> [@Ricardo\_Viteri](#):
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> Isn’t Discourse java based?
Errrmm. No, It’s Ruby and Ember
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/7 "2015-07-13T04:15:31Z")
I do not understand why this car is not fast, isn’t it green?
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### Author:  [@Ricardo\_Viteri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ricardo_Viteri)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/8 "2015-07-13T04:16:24Z")
My bad.
How long should I wait?
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### Author:  [@AmiAthena](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AmiAthena)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/9 "2015-07-13T04:18:00Z")
After you un-pinned it, did a new post appear in it that said it was no longer a banner?
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### Author:  [@Ricardo\_Viteri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ricardo_Viteri)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/10 "2015-07-13T04:25:15Z")
Yes, that is correct.
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### Author:  [@AmiAthena](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AmiAthena)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/11 "2015-07-13T04:27:37Z")
Can you provide a screenshot of the wrench options on the topic?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/12 "2015-07-13T04:48:36Z")
try:
- undelete
- unbanner
- delete
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/13 "2015-07-13T17:03:27Z")
If this works it’s a bug. Deleting a banner should stop it from showing up.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/14 "2015-07-13T22:45:06Z")
@techapj can you verify this case? What happens when you delete a bannered post?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2015, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/15 "2015-07-20T10:25:38Z")
I just tested this case. Deleting a bannered topic removes banner.
> [@Ricardo\_Viteri](#):
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> Please advise
Did you try refreshing the page?
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### Author:  [@jessicah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jessicah)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/16 "2018-07-17T08:41:04Z")
I’ve just run into this exact issue, running [v2.1.0.beta2 +289](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/compare/fe230f29cd15fe64fc40fb9cec5362784b1641db...tests-passed). Not sure if my case is related to server migration or not.
My only workaround was to create a new banner topic, unpin topic, then finally delete it.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/17 "2018-07-18T04:12:58Z")
We need an exact repro here to fix it, @techAPJ tried and had no luck. Possibly related to migration.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 8:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-banner-post/31004/18 "2018-07-23T08:02:11Z")
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