Permalink help!
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I am trying to create a ‘resources’ page for my blog. I create the page, but it wants to call the permalink ‘resources-2′. When I try to edit the permalink, it simply changes back to resources-2’. I have deleted all previous pages and emptied my trash. There is no other page called ‘resources’ or using that permalink.
How can I get the premalink extension to just be ‘resources’ without the ‘-2’?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Yes, but since this is mostly a peer-to-peer support forum, we forum volunteers generally tag threads for Staff if there is a problem we cannot resolve.
There may be a caching issue because of the previously named Page called “Resources”. Even though you have deleted your trash folder, it may take a bit longer, up to 3 days or so, before the page is entirely removed from the database.
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Ok, that’s great, thanks. I didn’t realise it was peer-to-peer. I thought it was primarily a wordpress staffed forum. Good job!
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You’re welcome.
This might help https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/forums-faq-getting-started-in-the-forums?replies=1
It’s a sticky post at the top of the forums.
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@stevencollier
These may help:
On the bottom of your Admin page you will find a link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. http://learn.wordpress.com/The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also on the bottom of your Admin page.
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If you still can’t create a new Resources page in a day or so, please post back to this same thread and we’ll tag it for Staff.
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I have just tried to create my resources page and it is still not letting me have /resources. It renames every time to /resources-2. Some help would be much appreciated.
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The only thing I can think is that there is another Page on your site that you maybe changed the title but kept the slug as “resources”. It may be a draft or unpublished page.
Since your site is marked “Private” we cannot see it, so I’ve tagged this for a Staff assist.
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Thanks Jennifer. I already checked all the pages and drafts (trash is empty) and no pages have that permalink!
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Hi @Steve,
OK, so that was a pretty strange issue! The problem was that you did actually have a page set with a slug of “resources.” It was the page titled “Home.”
It wasn’t showing with any slug because you had set it as your front page. I took the liberty of adjusting that page to have a slug of “home” and you should now be able to set your “Resources” page to have a slug of resources instead of resources-2.
Let me know if you have any questions or other problems!
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Yep, you had it Jen. It was just hiding because of the way that the page was set to be the front page. When a page is set to be the front page under Settings >> Reading, the slug gets obscured and it is only displayed as [blogname].wordpress.com instead of [blogname].wordpress.com/slug. Took a bit to remember that! :)
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