Cleaning the url

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 16, 2015 at 7:21 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  Hi,

  I wanted to create on my Edin them wordpress a menu of blog posts. It’s been tough but I’ve finally did it. But now, the url of the blog is http://swannfreslon.com/blog-5/ which doesn’t make sense. It’s like if the them kept all my attempts of creation. So I’d like to clean the link and have only /blog and not /blog-5
  Hope my explanations are clear…
  Thank you for your help.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

• 

  staff-happychia · Staff · Oct 16, 2015 at 8:21 am

  • Copy link

  /blog-5 part of the url is called slug. You can edit the slug for a post or page using the instructions in this support guide: https://en.support.wordpress.com/new-post-screen/#advanced-settings

  If WordPress.com is not letting you change the slug, empty the page trash folder and retry.

  Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 16, 2015 at 6:34 pm

  • Copy link

  Thank you for your help.

  I’ve found it how to do it for the posts but not for the pages.
  When I change the slug of the page to /blog instead of /blog-5, it doesn’t keep it. It changes back for /blog-2 and of course the page is not accessible anymore.

  And I coulnd’t find the trash. :(

• 

  timethief · Member · Oct 16, 2015 at 6:43 pm

  • Copy link

  Support docs are at http://support.wordpress.com
  type in Trash and click search
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=trash
  results are https://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/
  Scroll down to Permanently Deleting a Post or Page https://en.support.wordpress.com/trash/#permanently-deleting-a-post-or-page

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 16, 2015 at 7:57 pm

  • Copy link

  Thank you. I did it. Trash is empty.
  Now, I want to change the slug of my blog page to have a clean url.
  But each time I try to change from /blog-5 to /blog, it comes back to /blog-2.
  So, how do I change it for /blog permanently and then how to make the new page accessible with the new url?
  I can change the slug of a post, bt I can’t find it for the pages.

  Thank you!

• 

  staff-happychia · Staff · Oct 16, 2015 at 11:44 pm

  • Copy link

  > But each time I try to change from /blog-5 to /blog, it comes back to /blog-2.

  This sounds like there is another page that is already using the slug /blog so you won’t be able rename /blog-5 to /blog.

  Check if any of your other pages is using /blog, change it to something else and then rename /blog-5 to /blog.

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 17, 2015 at 1:15 am

  • Copy link

  I don’t find any pages named with “blog” in it in the “pages” folder. Do you know if there could be some hidden pages somewhere and how to reach them?

• 

  staff-happychia · Staff · Oct 17, 2015 at 1:40 am

  • Copy link

  Page name and slug name don’t have to match. So for each page, check not just page name but slug name as well.

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 17, 2015 at 3:21 pm

  • Copy link

  I’ve realized that the problem could come from other blogs that I have…
  So I’ve checked them. I’ve managed to change the slug of the “about” which had the same problem. But couldn’t do the “blog” page. The best I can do is to have a /blog-2 (or another name) instaed of blog-5.
  I’ve checked the pages of the other blogs ut I don’t find any pages with a url including /blog.
  Is it possible that because the other blogs are blogs (even if they don’t have the slug /blog) that’s why I already have a /blog somewhere?
  The others blogs are:
  blablaterie.wordpress.com
  mylifeasasharpei.wordpress.com
  blablaterie.wordpress.com

  Thank you!

• 

  staff-happychia · Staff · Oct 18, 2015 at 12:58 am

  • Copy link

  Every blog can have its own /blog page. So multiple blogs can’t be a problem.

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 18, 2015 at 10:04 pm

  • Copy link

  OK. Then I don’t know.
  Thank you all for your help.

• 

  supernovia · Staff · Oct 21, 2015 at 6:29 pm

  • Copy link

  Hi @swannfreslon, the trouble is that you can’t have duplicate slugs for anything — including your pages, posts, tags, and categories.

  You have a tag called “blog” and it’s using the “blog” slug, which is making it unavailable for your blog page. Can I recommend removing that completely, then trying to change your blog page slug once more?

• 

  staff-happychia · Staff · Oct 22, 2015 at 7:17 am

  • Copy link

  Thank you @supernovia. I did not realize slugs can be used for things other than posts and pages.

• 

  supernovia · Staff · Oct 22, 2015 at 6:40 pm

  • Copy link

  No problem, chaitanyamsv . One would use tag slugs like this:
  https://en.blog.wordpress.com/tag/traffic/

  And categories like so:
  https://en.blog.wordpress.com/category/better-blogging/

  I hope that helps!

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 22, 2015 at 9:22 pm

  • Copy link

  Thank you @supernovia
  I’ve deleted all the categories, tags, posts with the word “blog”.
  Still, the page I want to have /blog remains with the address /blog-2

• 

  staff-happychia · Staff · Oct 22, 2015 at 9:24 pm

  • Copy link

  Empty the trash folder for tags and categories as well and try again please.

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 22, 2015 at 9:38 pm

  • Copy link

  I don’t find the trash for categories and tags. When I’m in those sections in the admin, the trash doesn’t appear.

• 

  staff-happychia · Staff · Oct 22, 2015 at 9:44 pm

  • Copy link

  Sorry! Next time I don’t suggest anything without first checking it myself like I did now.

• 

  swannfreslon · Member · Oct 22, 2015 at 9:45 pm

  • Copy link

  :)
  I’m the one who’s sorry. Despite all your help, I can’t find the solution.

• 

  supernovia · Staff · Oct 23, 2015 at 12:04 am

  • Copy link

  Can you delete and empty the trash for this one too, please?
  http://swannfreslon.com/blog/

  After that you can go ahead and try changing the slug for the correct page. Thanks!