Slug issues for pages

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  fireontheocean · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 5:29 pm

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  I’m having problems with trying to set the slug for a page.

  I want this page, http://fireontheocean.com/volturno-database/news/by-date/1913-2/, to use the slug 1913 rather than 1913-2.

  When I try to set it to 1913 in either the Edit window or the Quick Edit area, it just reverts to 1913-2.

  What this would ordinarily indicate is that the 1913 slug is already in use somehow. When I manually type in the URL with the1913 in place, it loads the parent page, http://fireontheocean.com/volturno-database/news/by-date/.

  But, I don’t appear to have a duplicate of the parent page (i.e. one at …/by-date/ and one at …/by-date/1913/) and no other page uses the slug 1913 — sub-page of by-date or not.

  The by-date parent page did have a different slug before, but it was not 1913.

  Any suggestions to remedy this?

  The slug for the parent page is set to by-date

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 8:32 pm

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  You can’t set a plain number as the slug, because the resulting URL doesn’t mean childpage N, it means Nth page of a parent page split via the next-page tag.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/nextpage/

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  fireontheocean · Member · Oct 4, 2011 at 9:12 pm

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  Aha! That explains it.

  Thank you!