how to change a permalink

  • Resolved dsj1972

    (@dsj1972)


    6 years, 9 months ago

    HI there

    My site has a page called unposed that has a permalink of unposed-2

    I want to change unposed-2 to unposed

    But whenever i try to update it in the page configuration, then press Update, it reverts to the unposed-2

    I presume this is because I may have created a page called unposed earlier (I cant see it at the moment)

    Does the “unposed” permalink exist somewhere where I can find it and remove it?

    I have searched everywhere for anything that has “unposed” in it and have found nothing. So I am not sure how to check whata is still using the “unposed” slug.

    Leaving me most confused…

    Any suggestions much appreciated.

    Many thanks,
    David.

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by dsj1972.
    • This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by dsj1972.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 9 months ago

    Check to see if you have an image named “unposed” or a similarly named post or page in Trash.

    Thread Starter dsj1972

    (@dsj1972)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    Yes thanks Steve, I followed everything I could (via google) and that was one of the steps. I have gone on to posts/pages/galleries and searched for “unposed” and nothing comes up. I have emptied all trash! It is slightly annoying as http://www.fotoscopic/unposed just takes me back to http://www.fotoscopic.com so I am none the wiser as to what “unposed” really is!

    Thanks

    David l

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 9 months ago

    Try resetting your permalinks — go to settings->permalinks and click “save”.

    Thread Starter dsj1972

    (@dsj1972)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    Sorry Steve I dont quite follow.
    How does that reset the permalinks please?

    Before clicking SAVE, what actual change do i make?

    Thanks

    David.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 9 months ago

    Don’t make any changes. Clicking save forces WP to update some things in the DB and often helps in situations like this.

    Thread Starter dsj1972

    (@dsj1972)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    I have a ticket open with Bluehost. Have chatted three times with them and today had me working on the phpadmin utility searching for “unposed-2” in the database. I found a few traces of this and deleted them but still, unposed as a new page (I deleted the earlier one) always defaults to unposed-2.

    I will update this when I get this resolved.

    Thread Starter dsj1972

    (@dsj1972)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    Disabling the standalone add on that I had activated in Envira gallery allowed me to resolve this issue.

    Still waiting for Bluehost to get back to me …..wonder if they will or not…..

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