Help! I killed the edit menu on all the web parts on my SharePoint page

As Paul and I were testing the environment for tomorrow’s workshop, I dumped a web part on the page that I expected to hide the ‘View’ menu on a list or library. Well, not only did it knockout the View menu, it also took out the functionality of all of the Edit menus on every web part on the page!

Tough one, right? How can you delete the web part from the page when you can’t access the menu that allows the deletion?

There’s a simple fix for this one: add “&contents=1″ to the end of your URL string. That will expose all the web parts on the page and allow quick deletion of the culprits causing the problems.

Simple solution to an all too common problem when you are playing around with web parts.