wordpress adds a "-2" to my page url

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  chameleonscales · Member · May 14, 2018 at 9:21 pm

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  Even though the url I’m trying to give to a page is not used anywhere else in my website, wordpress persists with adding a “-2” to it as soon as I click “OK”.
  The page I’m referring to is https://chameleonscales.wordpress.com/about-2

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  mouli · Staff · May 15, 2018 at 5:26 am

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  Hi,
  This happens when WordPress finds another URL that is identical and it can be to a page that is sitting in the Trash so my guess is that there is another page with the same name in Trash or Drafts so that would be the first place to check.
  Once you have fully deleted the original page you should be free to change the URL from /about-2 to simply /about.
  I hope that helps.

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  chameleonscales · Member · May 15, 2018 at 10:59 am

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  I already thought of that but I have no draft and there’s nothing in the trash. That’s why it’s bugging me.

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  kosiew · Member · May 16, 2018 at 3:24 am

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  hi,

  I noticed that https://chameleonscales.wordpress.com/about redirects to https://chameleonscales.wordpress.com/.

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 16, 2018 at 10:23 am

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  Hi there,

  The page you have set as front page on your site is already using the slug “about”:

  https://chameleonscales.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1&action=edit

  See the page slug section in the editor there.

  If you change that to something else, you’ll be able to use that slug for a different page.

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  chameleonscales · Member · May 16, 2018 at 4:24 pm

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  That’s strange, why would that not show up in admin mode ?
  The slug only appeared when I went in the non-admin editor.
  Is that a bug ?

  Thank you for the tip though, it worked.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · May 16, 2018 at 5:01 pm

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  Happy to hear you have it sorted.