Renamed slugs are causing broken links, why?

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  calligraphymanitoba · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 5:57 am

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  I’ve ended up with some odd URL paths and when I change the slugs, I’m ending up with broken links. Problem began when layout changes to pages were not being accepted. I copied the code into a new page, and deleted the old. That’s where the problem began. What can I do to resolve this? Thanks.

  P.S. My blog URL, that appears in the form below, is incorrect. It should be calligraphymanitoba.com.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 3:12 pm

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  Could you point me to a URL that is not broken?

  To be clear, you originally had a page like this:

  http://mysite.com/this-slug

  You then changed the URL to:

  http://mysite.com/that-slug

  Is that correct? If so, the previous URL (this-slug) will be broken. I’m afraid there’s no way to fix that without changing the slug back to the previous value.

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  calligraphymanitoba · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 1:07 am

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  Thanks for your response Jeremey.

  I fired off my question quickly. I’ll try to add some clarity.

  There are no broken links on my site right now. They become broken when I try to rename the permalinks of my pages.

  This is how it started –
  I copied the coding from most of my existing pages into new pages. It seemed to be an easy fix for a problem that I was having – obviously not. The coding from the page “workshop”, for example, was pasted into a new page that I created. Then I deleted the original “workshop” page. I went to save my new page the same as the now deleted “workshop” page. My permalink entry was not accepted and was assigned the name “workshop-2”. When I tried again, it did accept “workshop” but links to the page were broken throughout the site. Renamed it back to “-2” and things are fine. Now I’ve got a site of -2’s, and even a -2-2. I’d like to clean up the names.

  Here’s a URL –
  http://calligraphymanitoba.com/workshops-2/

  Make sense?

  Thanks,
  Sheila

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 2:47 pm

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  Hi Sheila!

  Thanks for clarifying. That does indeed make sense.

  I believe the issue here is that the previous versions of the pages are still in your trash folder here:

  https://calligraphersguildmanitoba.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_status=trash&post_type=page

  As long as those items are in your trash folder, the slug (workshop) will continue to be taken (which is why you’re getting workshop-2). Can we first try to delete all of the pages in your trash by using the “Delete Permanently” option within the Bulk Actions drop-down?

  http://d.pr/i/1eC94

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  calligraphymanitoba · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 2:14 am

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  Hi Jeremey,

  That worked perfectly!

  Thanks so much for sharing your time and wisdom. I appreciate it.

  Sheila

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 12, 2015 at 2:17 pm

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  No problem Sheila!