Title: removing permalink from database
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# removing permalink from database

 *  [tussin100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tussin100/)
 * (@tussin100)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-permalink-from-database/)
 * Hi- first time poster here
 * I have a small irritating problem that I just cant resolve — It would be great
   if someone could help me.
 * I created a blog post and added a permalink – then after publishing I realised
   I made spelling mistake so changed the permalink straight away.
    The problem 
   is, that I now seem to have two permalinks (both the old and the new) pointing
   to my post. I know this because google is crawling both pages and indexing the
   misspelt one. Is there any way to delete the misspelt one from the database?
 * the misspelt url [http://lets-beat-tinnitus.co.uk/blog/acohol-and-tinnitus](http://lets-beat-tinnitus.co.uk/blog/acohol-and-tinnitus)
   
   correct post [http://lets-beat-tinnitus.co.uk/blog/alcohol-tinnitus-effects/](http://lets-beat-tinnitus.co.uk/blog/alcohol-tinnitus-effects/)
 * Thanks

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 *  [frank82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frank82/)
 * (@frank82)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-permalink-from-database/#post-788121)
 * I have the same problem.
 * Can somebody help me? How can i delete old permalink?
 * Many thanks.
 *  [jonathanstray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanstray/)
 * (@jonathanstray)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-permalink-from-database/#post-788162)
 * I have exactly this problem. Years ago (and several versions of WP earlier) I
   set the permalink to an article as [http://www.equivocality.net/wts](http://www.equivocality.net/wts).
   The article is now called [http://www.equivocality.net/wts2005](http://www.equivocality.net/wts2005),
   but the /wts link still goes there — when I actually need it to go to /wts2009
 * I have looked in vain through the admin UI for a place to reset this link. I 
   have al.so discovered the page_links and rewrite_rules in the database, but can’t
   figure out the format and don’t see the string “wts” anyway. There is also nothing
   relevant in .htaccess
 * Help! How do I remove ancient permalinks? Is there at least some documentation
   for how WP stores these?

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 * Last reply from: [jonathanstray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanstray/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-permalink-from-database/#post-788162)
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