Title: Can’t reset permalink
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Can’t reset permalink

 *  [johnfrum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfrum/)
 * (@johnfrum)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-reset-permalink/)
 * I am using WordPress on XAMPP to convert a handcoded website to WordPress. I 
   am using a page structure with pages under the main pages. (../parentpage/childpage.)
 * In using permalinks, I have had to delete a page and start over.
 * When I recreate the childpage the permalink shows as ../parentpage/childpage-
   1. I need it to be parentpage/childpage, since all the links in the web site 
   are based on this method.
 * When I edit the permalink, I can get rid of the -1, but when I go back and look
   at the page, the permalink is reset to the -1 configuration.
 * I’ve tried this several times, deleting the page and starting over and am now
   up to -5 and still can’t figure out how to truly start over.
 * Any thoughts?

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-reset-permalink/#post-1508125)
 * you have other versions of the webpage in your trash you need to delete
 * page->edit
 * at the top is a link to get to the trash, go in there and delete the trashed 
   copies
 *  [weirdnews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/weirdnews/)
 * (@weirdnews)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-reset-permalink/#post-1508129)
 * have you set mod rewrite in htaccess?
 *  [weirdnews](https://wordpress.org/support/users/weirdnews/)
 * (@weirdnews)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-reset-permalink/#post-1508131)
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [johnfrum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnfrum/)
 * (@johnfrum)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-reset-permalink/#post-1508133)
 * Thanks RVoodoo, forgot to empty trash. My mistake.
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-reset-permalink/#post-1508134)
 * Yup, I ran into the problem a few times….keep forgetting that feature was added

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-reset-permalink/#post-1508134)
 * Status: not resolved

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