Help! I've lost my blog page.

  • I guess I made a stupid mistake! I might have deleted the blog page a while ago and it’s not in the trash. I created a new page and named it ‘blog’ but it’s url will automatically be mywebsite/blog-2 and it only works when I set static front page and post page, and they can’t be the same so I can’t have my blog as my front page anymore. ??

    If I set my front page to my latest post, I’ll have my blog as my front page but when I click the link on the post title, it will go to mywebsite/blog-2 page which is empty. If I revert the blog page to draft, it will go to mywebsite/blog which cannnot be found. ?? ??

    Please help. Thanks in advance.

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  • If you deleted the first page (named blog), but it’s not in the trash, there must be a reference to it somewhere in order to prevent the second page (also named blog) from being named blog – otherwise you wouldn’t get a blog-2.

    The only way to find this is to look at the database itself, using a tool such as phpMyAdmin. The wp_posts table contains the records of your posts (and pages), where you can look to see if there are any records that my be left in there that haven’t been cleaned up correctly. I have also seen mention where there could be a record in wp_terms that may cause this problem – though I have not seen that one personally.

    This is all because WordPress does not allow two pages (or posts) to share the same name, so you would need to get rid of that original one first (or restore it) in order to restore your site to “blog”.

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