Permalinks not editable

  • Resolved bobdobbs

    (@bobdobbs)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    Hi all.

    I’ve got a Page that I’m trying to set up to list blog posts.

    However, when I edit the permalink, my edit never sticks. WordPress seems to give the page a permalink name of it’s own choice, no matter what I do.

    Is this a known bug ?

    I want my page to be called either ‘blog’ or ‘news’, and use my word of choice as part of the permalink.

    If I edit the permalink to that state “https://wp/blog”, wordpress changes it to “https://wp/blog-2”. The same happens if I try to change the permalink to “https://wp/news”. WordPress throws in a hyphen and a digit.

    Is there a way to fix this?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You probably already have a post or page with a “blog” and “news” slug. When you create the second, it has to add the -2 to differentiate between the old and the new page.

    Posts/Pages in the trash are also still considered as valid, so if you have old pages in the trash that use the same name, either change the slug/name of the trashed one, or delete it from the trash (just an FYI).

    Thread Starter bobdobbs

    (@bobdobbs)

    Thanks.

    Deleting pages from the trash did the trick.

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