Unable to have page URL as 2012

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  sugarpeach · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 9:44 am

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  I want to create a blog page with the URL http://sugarpeach.wordpress.com/2012. I created the page, but the permalink remains http://sugarpeach.wordpress.com/2012-2/. I don’t have any previous permalink that is http://sugarpeach.wordpress.com/2012. What should I do so that there is no -2 in the URL?

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 9:53 am

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  Is it possible you already created a 2012 page and then trashed it? If so, make sure to empty the trash and you should then be able to modify the page url to remove the -2.

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  sugarpeach · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 9:55 am

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  I don’t have any 2012 pages or posts. That’s why I’m finding this problem a little weird.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 10:09 am

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  http://sugarpeach.wordpress.com/2012/ would be the permalink for the 2012 yearly archive page, that is why the -2 was added. It it was not, then the two pages would be in conflict with one another since the archive page and the page you created would have the same permalink.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 10:12 am

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  /headdesk of course tsp! Thanks for the catch!

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  sugarpeach · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 10:14 am

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  Is there a way I can delete the 2012 archive page?

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 10:15 am

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  No, it’s hardcoded into the archive system. You cannot change it or delete it.

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  sugarpeach · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 10:16 am

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  Oh okay, thanks for the help!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 10:23 am

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  You are welcome. What you would have to do is to put some text with the year rather than just having it as the number. The other thing you can look at would be replacing the zero with a captital O. You would have to see how it looked as some fonts make numbers smaller than capital letters.

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  sugarpeach · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 10:28 am

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  Thanks for the suggestion. I have changed the URL to 2o12. Since I can’t capitalize the o, it does look a bit strange… but oh well.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 11:47 am

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  You are welcome and at least we have a sort of solution.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 12:31 pm

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  Great suggestion, tsp. Bookmarked!