Persistent slug/URL

  • Resolved doctorEQ

    (@doctoreq)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    Greetings,

    RE: Persistent slug/URL

    I want ‘pretty’ permalinks. I am having problems making posts go to a ‘Blog’ page.
    I have started from scratch several times and emptied as many “trash”s as I can find.
    I made a Page called Blog and directed WP to use a static home page and this Blog page for posts.
    The Blog page shows a slug of “blog” and a URL of https://www.doctorEQ/blog.

    I USED to have a category and/or tag called “captivated me” which I thought I purged.
    Currently, no matter what categories and tags I create, the posts appear on a page with the URL of https://www.doctorEQ/captivated-me/

    I searched through all “pages” and can find no such page.

    When I re-created the Blog page (and its menu entry) I checked all available categories to be displayed.

    If I set WP permalinks to custom and enter “/%postname%/” into the WP Permalinks settings, theBlog pages shows no posts, whether they have categories, tags or not.

    If I set custom permalinks to “https:///%postname%/” (three ///’s or two), it changes the custom setting to “/http:/%postname%/” and shows all my tests post, but, they are shown on a page with this URL: https://www.doctoreq.com/captivated-me/

    Might there be another trash for me to find and empty to purge that page?

    I’d really like to make my posts go onto a page with the “blog” slug and URL.

    I’ll leave it that way in case source code is at all helpful.

    Please help?

    TIA

    doctorEQ

    I am quite new at this. I am using WP 3.2, Polished theme from Elegant Themes, W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.3 (I clear all caches, including the browser’s, after each step), WordPress SEO 0.4.2, on a Windows 7 x64 machine and have shared hosting using Linux/Apache.

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  • Thread Starter doctorEQ

    (@doctoreq)

    This forum is pretty dead for answers.

    Questions: 22
    Answers: -0-

    Here’s the answer to my question in case it’s helpful for anyone who might accidentally find this.

    The remedy was to have my hosting service delete, eradicate, and otherwise dispose of some “redirects” that were in my WP Database. I have learned that I can access this database (or databases) through phpmyadmin in cPanel as well as some redirect section in WordPress.

    I had not made any redirect settings yet (not intentionally, anyway) and figured to learn about that issue later.

    I am still looking for a WP forum that has active and intelligent members who actually answer posts; I invite any recommendations.

    So, (1) where are redirects edited in WP? and
    (2) have you a referral for excellent WP forum?

    THANKS……….Thanks………thanks……..anks………..anks………..[crickets]

    I’m having the same exact problem, and don’t see any resolution for this. wordpress 3.2 as well.

    Thread Starter doctorEQ

    (@doctoreq)

    RESOLVED – UPDATE:

    ONE part of the issue was because I didn’t know there was another ‘trash’ to take out. WP won’t allow two URLs/permalinks to have identical slugs, so I kept getting sequential slugs (slug1, slug3, slug4) until I found and deleted permanently all pages that had these slugs.

    The MAIN remedy was as I posted just above, Tim.

    Good luck and be well,

    doctorEQ

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