Cannot change permalink

  • I have a very strange issue. I’m trying to create a page called “About Us” and the permalink renames itself to “us” or if I just try and change it to “about,” it reverts to the draft ID. Here’s the TS I’ve done.

    • Cleared the trash from pages and posts
    • Removed all drafts and revisions
    • Reset Permalinks
    • Deactivated all plugins
    • Activated to Twenty Fourteen
    • Searched the database for the word “about” and returned 0 results

    I’m at a complete loss here.

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  • Hello,

    Go to Settings > Permalinks.. make sure you have selected post name.

    The only reason I think this can be happening is because you already have a page named ‘about us’. I know you may already have but please double check you have no pages or posts with the permalink following ‘about-us’.

    Thread Starter Dustin Jones

    (@domesticjones)

    I’m very experienced with WP and have tried variations of /%postname%, /%category%/%postname%, etc. If you read the list of t/s that I’ve already done, you’ll see that I have already cleared the trash and pages.

    I’m not able to use the word “about” to start ANY permalink. It can even be “About Botswana” and it will revert the permalink to “Botswana.” I can’t use that word whatsoever to start any permalink. Now, if I did “Botswana About” then it creates “botswana-about” with no issue.

    This is for a framework that is used currently on about 300 websites and will be on hundreds and hundreds more. This issue just started happening after I updated to 3.9.1.

    [Moderator Note: No bumping, thank you.]

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