New pages overwriting older pages

  • Recently, myself and my colleague have noticed that if we try to add more than one new page a day, we run into some issues. The first page will generally add no problem. However, when we add a second, page, it will overwrite the page we just added.

    We noticed this as we were manually moving new pages from our Dev environment into our staging environment. it ended up casuing confusion with slugs, meta descriptions and redirects, which made the whole process very messy and time consuming.

    We were moving pages using two methods – one was using the portability feature of the Divi theme which allows you to save a layout, export it and import it into a new page. We also tried using the WordPress Importer method.

    The only way we could get it to work any way correctly was doing all of our work incognito mode. Has anyone else experienced this?

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    If everything always works correctly in incognito mode, then one of your usual browser extensions or plugins are somehow interfering. I cannot imagine what, or why an extension would mess up new page submits, but it’s the only plausible explanation.

    A common cause for similar behavior when we import data is the DB table’s AUTO_INCREMENT value doesn’t accurately reflect the number of records in the table. But then incognito wouldn’t fix this. Perhaps some browser extension is corrupting the page ID that’s being sent to WP? Wrong ID means updating the wrong DB record.

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