Title: Problem adding a new page – possibly database problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem adding a new page – possibly database problem

 *  [bipco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bipco/)
 * (@bipco)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-new-page-possibly-database-problem/)
 * Hello
 * Our WordPress installation has developed a problem in not being able to add new
   pages. This was working fine – I think it is a database problem, as I got a new
   WordPress and put our changed theme and plugin files into it, then tried removing
   those to see if any was the likely culprit – but this didn’t change the behaviour.
 * What happens is the new page is created in the database, but WordPress times-
   out while creating it (then the entry in the database for that page has id 0).
   If you then go to the Manage->Pages page, you get an apparently infinite recursive
   loop where ever more-and-more pages are displayed, successively nested by one
   level each time. I’ve just done another test, where all the pages displayed recursively
   were the new test page (even though there are lots of other pages in the database,
   and previously I had it displaying all the pages recursively).
 * I thought the new page getting id 0 might be significant, and so it would appear–
   if I then manually change that to a higher unused number, all the pages display
   properly in Manage->Pages.
 * So the question would seem to be – why is the new page getting id 0?
 * Any thoughts?
 * (As an aside I’ve noticed another “infinite-loop” type problem if you add a page
   with the same name as an existing page, so WP 2.1 does seem to have a loop bug
   of some sort.)
 * Thanks
 * Warren

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 *  [mfseo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfseo/)
 * (@mfseo)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-new-page-possibly-database-problem/#post-543440)
 * Warren,
 * I am having the same issue and it quite the burden. Have you figured out an solution
   to the problem or what is truly causing it?
 * One other behaviour I noticed: After you click “Create New Page” in the Write
   Page Editor all I get back is a blank post.php page.
 * Any help out there?
 * Thanks.
 * Matt

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 * [adding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/adding/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [id](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/id/)
 * [loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop/)
 * [recursive](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/recursive/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-new-page-possibly-database-problem/#post-543440)
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